Afghan journalist tells of the sorry state of the disastrous war in Afghanistan

The New Yorker article

After America

Will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?

quotes Abdul Nasir, a journalist: “The Americans have failed to build a single sustainable institution here. All they have done is make a small group of people very rich. And now they are getting ready to go. … The Americans have a big base there, and they never go out. And, only four kilometres from the front gate, the Taliban control everything.”

It’s repugnant to me that the people responsible for the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — with all the resulting  death, destruction, torture, and waste — were allowed to get off scot-free.