After 12 years, £390bn, and countless dead, we leave poverty, fraud – and the Taliban in Afghanistan

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The Independent, 12 January 2014

The author in the leading British daily quotes extensively from what he calls “a damning study of the outcome of 12 years of international intervention in Afghanistan by Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul” that underscroes “that US and British military [and may i add – political] intervention has ended in near total failure.”