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What next for Afghans after disastrous exit of US forces?

U.S. Marines stand guard at an Evacuee Control Checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, in this photo taken on August 20, 2021. [Courtesy: Reuters]

To most people, it’s a paradox why the United States of America and its allies got into Afghanistan and stayed on for 20 years. But I was in the US when the September 11 terrorist attack took place.

I saw and felt the anger among the Americans. Their fortress breached, they acted, uprooting the Taliban who had taken power in Afghanistan in 1996.

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