The remnants of a foreign policy
Britain’s campaign in Afghanistan has been a failure. Its withdrawal could be a disaster
IN THE shade of the presidential palace in Kabul, in the furnace heat of Helmand, and on the flight from Oxfordshire, shouting above the roar of the Royal Air Force plane’s engines, the British pressmen who travelled to Afghanistan with David Cameron last week had really only one question: “Was it worth it?”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The remnants of a foreign policy”
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