August 30, 2021
PRESIDENT Joe Biden watches as a Navy carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Navy Corpsman Maxton W Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware yesterday. According to the Department of Defense, Soviak died in an attack at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport, along with 12 other US service members. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
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INSIGHT: The lessons of Afghanistan should not go unheeded
The heart-wrenching scenes in Afghanistan in recent days, which culminated in horrendous terrorist attacks in Kabul airport, sent shock waves across the world and generated much soul-searching in the West. The chaos, desperation, and uncertainty unleashed in the aftermath of Taliban’s rapid take-over of the country was rightfully interpreted as a drastic policy failure of its foreign occupiers.
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