Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  Today on the show, our correspondent reports from quake-hit Colombia,

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  and celebrating the life of mountaineer Nirmal Purja.

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  But first,

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  Five years ago saw the end of America's longest war,

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  the one it had fought for two decades and then lost,

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  in the mountains, deserts, and cities of Afghanistan.

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  Just going to stop there.

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  What we're showing you our viewers now are Reuters images of the Afghan flag being taken down.

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  America and its allies sent troops into the country after the September 11th attacks, 25 years ago.

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  As America left, its proxy Afghan government collapsed, and the Taliban returned.

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  So what's happened to those left behind?

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  The Afghan people.

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  I'm here in Kabul, where it's five years since the Taliban returned to power.

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  Tom Sasse is our South Asia bureau chief.

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  In some ways, the city life has returned to some kind of normality.

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  You see lots of people out on the street selling things, lots of cars,

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  the traffic is busy, the city is growing, and the city's got some kind of peace actually.

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