Claire: How much do you think the divided attention between Iraq and Afghanistan made it even harder to produce any kind of good in either country? Claire: There was no urgency. It's hubris. America thought this is our unipolar moment. We are the greatest bar in the world. Britain must always go with America because that's the only thing that makes us important. I mean that's Britain's foreign policy really. Rainnog for you watching how the occupation was was playing out.

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