Rory Stewart on Afghanistan, 3/3

years ago, 200 metres from the presidential palace in central Kabul. ... There's no sewage system in the capital city, which has got nearly four million people. When you take that on board, the idea that you're somehow going to be able, overnight, to create legitimate, effective, stable state structures and the writ of the government will run into every ruined village and that the Taleban will be defeated once and for all and that we're all going to be able to go home in three years' time ...
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