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AUGUST 22 — Last week, the world watched the Taliban take control of the city of Kabul and virtually the whole country of Afghanistan.   “Kabul falls to the Taliban” screamed the headlines and we watched foreigners and Afghans who had worked with the US forces throng the...

AUGUST 22 — Last week, the world watched the Taliban take control of the city of Kabul and virtually the whole country of Afghanistan.

The fall of Kabul is seen as a tragedy with parallels drawn to the humiliating US withdrawal from Saigon in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.Of course it is unfortunate that a hard-line and violent group like the Taliban now control the country. Two hundred and fifty thousand Afghan people were killed during the 20 years of US occupation in a country of 35 million people. A large proportion of these were women and children.

US forces also killed thousands on the ground and the US-backed corrupt and ruthless warlords to prop up their puppet government in Kabul.

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