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    Reckless abandon

    Aug 22, 2021 2 minutes

    he “told you so” exponents who have hailed the Taliban’s sudden brutal resurgence in Afghanistan as evidence of the futility of that country’s 20-year foreign occupation will not be basking for long. Some – including a number of New Zealand commentators – may have been able to harden their hearts to a resumption of the regime’s virtual enslavement and frequent mutilation and murder of the women and girls for whom

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