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The rapid collapse of Afghanistan’s military and governing institutions largely substantiates US President Joe Biden’s skepticism that US-led efforts would ever have enabled the government to stand on its own feet. Even two decades of steady support failed to create Afghan institutions capable of holding their own


The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences ( widespread reprisals, harsh repression of women and girls, and massive refugee flows), America’s strategic and moral failure in Afghanistan will reinforce questions about US reliability among friends and foes alike