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The 272-strong Afghanistan Institute of Music had a double target on its back: it was teaching music which the Taliban are known to hate - and its students were mostly girls.
President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year, and the troops from Americas NATO allies that are still there will undoubtedly be gone by then too. It is possible that the weak Kabul government we have been supporting will somehow
I feel it too. Iâm just not sure feelings should win the day.
In his televised address announcing the decision, Biden reiterated that American withdrawal canât be âtied to conditions on the groundâ because no one can say what conditions must be met in order to depart.
As a senior administration official explained to reporters, âThis is not conditions-based. The president has judged that a conditions-based approach, which has been the approach of the past two decades, is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever.â
Letâs be clear: ânot conditions-basedâ is another way of saying âunconditional.â
But what if the problem isnât with the answers and rather with the questions?