We Once Waltzed in Kabul

Displaced Afghans reach out for aid from a local Muslim organization at a makeshift camp on August 10, 2021, in Kabul. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
The U.S. abandoned my friends. Now they are trapped in Afghanistan and hiding from the Taliban.
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Catastrophe. Calamity. Chaos. Humiliation. Tragedy.
All words that can be used to describe what we are witnessing right now in Afghanistan, 20 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
You can believe, as many people I respect do, that this war should have ended long ago. You can believe that it was always unwinnable and should have never started in …
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