‘A tragic and wasted opportunity’: Australia’s inglorious exit from Afghanistan

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/07/2021 - 6:00am

Was two decades of war worth the price in human life, enduring suffering and monetary cost? It depends who you ask

During the two decades in which Australia was ensnared in an unwinnable war after trailing the US into Afghanistan, a succession of our political leaders spoke reassuringly about how they would not desert the Afghans.

“We will not abandon Afghanistan,” the then prime minister Julia Gillard declared in 2011.