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Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan

Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan

Update: 2021-08-192
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Politician, scholar, diplomat and sometime soldier Rory Stewart joins Peter Roberts for a post-mortem of the West's failed campaign in Afghanistan. Rory laments the approach of Western leaders (political and military) in perpetuating untruths about the art of the possible, as well as the US-led withdrawal under the Biden administration. An extremely sobering analysis.

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Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan

Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan

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