The transitional justice that was decided on in the Bonn agreement of 2001 was not implemented. That is creating gaps. Transitional justice was to be implemented so that all the warlords, extremist leaders, and war criminals would have gone to court by now.
Instead of sending them to court, we sent them to parliament, to cabinet, and to political power, so the power is in their hands. They make laws of impunity for themselves and influence the democratization process more and more in their own favour.
The mistake was that transitional justice was not implemented. Instead, we gave them the political power to remake Afghanistan the way they wanted through energy from outside. Now we're even adding to that by bringing in the extremist Taliban and bribing them by giving them power.