“These guys were just poor men fighting a war for a corrupt elite”
Emran Feroz, an Austrian-Afghan journalist, provides context for what has been happening in Afghanistan. It is an explanation of the mess, as Emran sees it, the US made of Afghanistan and why Joe Biden’s talk of the Afghan people not having the will to fight ignored so much that happened in the past 20 years.
The soldier dying were cannon fodder, he says, who were asked to fight while corruption was rife among so many others in Afghanistan. It is a conversation which places the Taliban in context while also stressing that it is an illusion to believe that they have changed.
