My dream of a democratic Afghanistan came true. The country needs another miracle for it to happen again

Sima Samar served in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan, established the first-ever Ministry of Women's Affairs, and chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission from 2002 until 2019. A visiting scholar at Tufts University's Fletcher School, she is the author of the memoir Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan. Less than a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the allied military intervention of Afghanistan began. By December, the country had been reclaimed by Afghans and the Taliban had been expelled, or so we thought. That same month a meeting was held in Bonn,…