What have we learnt from Afghanistan?

By The Canberra Times
August 17 2021 - 5:30am
Members of the Taliban patrolling the streets of Kabul on Monday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Picture: Getty Images
Members of the Taliban patrolling the streets of Kabul on Monday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Picture: Getty Images

Many of the Australians who woke on Monday to the shocking news Kabul had fallen to the Taliban with startling speed and ease overnight will find it hard to accept the Prime Minister's unqualified assertion the 41 Diggers who lost their lives in Afghanistan did not die in vain.

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