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Little to show for allied involvement in Afghanistan
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By Amin Saikal
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In an op-ed in
Herald of 1 June 2011, following the US killing of Osama bin Laden a month earlier, I warned, “Australia cannot expect its human sacrifices and material investment to make much of a difference” in Afghanistan, intimating that hopefully we would not see the day when Australian leaders looked back and wondered “what was that all about?”
That day has arrived with President Joe Biden’s announcement to end America’s two-decade long military intervention in Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to follow suit.
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