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America’s Miscalculations, Afghanistan’s Collapse

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Is There a Chance That the US Left Afghanistan?

i wonder how much of all these ultimately incorrectsut s that the biin administration made tie back to the original us. Was that assumption itself inherently flawed? In other words, is such a thing as leaving a country like afghanistan after 20 years cleanly? Michael, i don't think there was ever a chance that when the us. Left, it could leave cleanly. And in part that's because the mission had expanded so dramatically beyond kicking out alcida and hunting down osama bin laden. You know, it became building a democracy. It became protecting girls so that they could go to school. It became building a real economy. There's no way to wind

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