i didn't think the foundations were deep. I thought that, ah, it wasn't an afghan solution. Solutions were being shaped and imposed on the country by others. And what i thought of as well was a tremendous sense of waste That after 20 years of killing, 20 years of trying to establish a better way to live inAfghanistan which benefited some people but not everybody.
One year ago the United States decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades in the country. The Taliban, a militant Islamist group that ran most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, swept to power without much resistance from the Afghan army and captured Kabul on August 15 2021. The debacle left Western governments humiliated and ordinary Afghans afraid. What responsibility do countries like Britain and the United States have for the current crisis? To discuss these issues our host the journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana is joined by Shabnam Nasimi, Policy Advisor to the U.K Home Office, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, and Paul Mason, the journalist, writer and film-maker.
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