Afghanistan - What's the Point?

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There has never been that kind of a reckoning. You don't give these countries the space to create political alternatives when you come in as this massive military imperial power. The whole thing is just unconscionable. One of the most reprehensible things that's happened under the Biden administration, which has received almost no attention. What was happening on the ground and the suffering of the Afghan population from this ongoing war has received very little attention in general.

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