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An internally displaced Afghan woman stands with her daughters in front a makeshift tent in a camp on a rocky patch of land, after fleeing fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul). AS a tragedy unfolds the West looks the other way. There is something almost obscene about the disregard shown by the international community right now over the fate of Afghanistan and its people, not least because we in great part are responsible for its making. Monitoring events closely and with many Afghan friends there whose lives face an uncertain future at the mercy of a relentless Taliban advance, I have a near dread of what the latest reports bring from the country.