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by Staff reporter
23 August 2021
Podcast:

Podcast: "I'm devastated and I feel a deep sense of foreboding for what comes next..."

Amid political recriminations following the Taliban's seizure of Kabul, the Holyrood team talks to Afghans living in the UK, a former soldier and ex-International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander about whether the two-decade conflict was worth it.

I feel devastated by what’s unfolded in recent days. Not simply because I remember what Afghanistan was like and the fragile, but very real progress, that was being made, but because I feel a deep sense of fear and foreboding for what comes next for that country.

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