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For decades, the Afghan people have lived through war: from the Soviet invasion in 1979 – when my mother and her family left for the US – to civil wars, and the ...

But as a responsibility to put the people at the forefront of Afghanistan’s narrative, not just the political leadership. I recently met someone who made it to the US from Kabul airport last year: a foster son taken in by someone close to me. We remember the surreal images last year of Afghans clinging to a US Air Force jet in what can only be described as desperation personified. Since then, the group has had to grapple with being on the receiving end of attacks against the people they govern. No, he wanted to be buried in his home of the past 30 years, America, despite not sharing the soil with the ancestors who came before him. He much preferred basking in the sunlight of his fond memories.