With grief and dismay, US veterans watch Afghanistan fall
"Twenty-plus years, billions of dollars spent, I never expected the speed and the brazenness of the Taliban would be what it is," says a veteran.
Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war. (AFP)
A decade after returning from Afghanistan, Marc Silvestri was convinced it was time for his comrades to come home too. But watching the chaotic pullout unfold in real
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