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Punishment Never Works
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Punishment Never Works

But to the Taliban, it's the point.

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Hannah Yoest
Aug 19, 2021
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“I love freedom, because punishment never works.” – Alex Dimitrov

(Photo credit: SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)

1. It’s not Biden’s failure alone, but we failed the women of Afghanistan.

The Afghan army is not alone in being set up for failure by America’s abandonment. It is like drinking from a firehose trying to grasp how catastrophic the Taliban retak…

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