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A tragic end to 20 years in Afghanistan

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Is the Taliban in Charge of Afghanistan?

I think recent history doesn't paint a hopeful picture. It's probably too early to speculate about what the taliban government might look like. The real challenge for the us is, on the one hand, you don't necesarly want to recognize and legitimize what could be a truly brutal and repressive government. But it's also been very annoying over the last few days hearing pundits say, 'Oh, oh, foreign policy will keep them intact' I still think the true colours of the talaban are brutal and that they will repress women. And at no time we always look at this place just through the prism of of whatever the the present political context is in the united states

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