Afghanistan falls, bit by bit to the Taliban. What was the point of the past 20 years?
Pakistan bears so much guilt which will never be acknowledged or accepted. It was a bad situation, yes, but I can’t believe the decisions made were the right ones for anyone – not Pakistan, not Afghanistan. There is a particularly vile form of ‘realism’, with a claim to act in the face of inevitability, that you find in Pakistan, and especially in Pakistani men, which is some of the worst of our national character.