Fall of Afghanistan: USA another experiment failed

August 21, 2021 Tietler

Fall of Afghanistan government and the Taliban’s recapture of power came after a swift by the militant group which stunned the world. It is the latest chapter in the country’s nearly 40 years of instability and deadly conflict.

Afghans have lived through foreign invasions, civil war, insurgency and oppressive Taliban rule. Which …

Started with The Soviet war: After a 1978 Afghan coup, the Soviet military invades Afghanistan to build a pro-Soviet government. Babrak Karmal is installed as Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed ruler. Groups of guerrilla fighters known as Mujahideen started jihad against Soviet forces. The war leaves about 1 million Afghan civilians dead. Millions of Afghans begin fleeing to Pakistan as refugees. The U.S., which had previously been aiding Afghan Mujahideen groups by arms via Pakistan.

Later Mohammad Najibullah, replaced Karmal as president. With Geneva peace accords in 1988 signed by Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Pakistan, the Soviet forces begin their withdrawal and lasted till Feb 1989.

Fall of Afghanistan — Mohammed Najibullah Ahmedzai was the president of Afghanistan between 1987 and 1992. The Taliban, which captured the capital, Kabul, in September 1996, executed him and brutalised his body under full international glare.

Following the withdrawal of Soviet forces and the collapse of the Soviet Union, pro-communist government crumbles. President Najibullah was blocked from leaving Afghanistan and took refuge at the Kabul United Nations compound, where he remained for more than four years till he was killed.

The following excerpt describes the political, diplomatic, and moral dilemmas that the United Nations, India, and various Afghan forces faced in the run-up to Najibullah’s killing.

In 1997-98, gaining control over most of the country, the Taliban imposed their rule, forbidding most women from working, banning girls from education and carrying out punishments including beatings, amputations and public executions. Only three countries officially recognize the Taliban regime: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

In 1998 U.S. launched missile strikes in Afghanistan, retaliation for al-Qaida attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In 1999, the U.N. Security Council imposes terrorist sanctions on the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Same year in December, an Indian Airlines passenger jet, bound from Kathmandu to New Delhi, was hijacked to Kandahar. The Taliban serve as mediators and abled to free three terrorists from Indian prisons in exchange for the passengers’ safety.

After al-Qaida’s Sept. 11,2001 attacked in New York City and Washington. One month later the U.S. A U.S.-led coalition launches Operation Enduring Freedom, targeting the Taliban and al-Qaida with military strikes. The U.S.-backed Northern Alliance entered Kabul and the Taliban flee south and their regime is overthrown. In December, Hamid Karzai is named interim president.

The U.S. endgame and Taliban Regain:

In 2018, president Donald Trump appointed former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan as his special representative to negotiate with the Taliban.

After another disputed election in 2019, Ghani is declared president and Abdullah as head of the government’s peace negotiating committee in early 2020.

The U.S. and the Taliban sign a peace agreement on terms including for the U.S. withdrawal of troops and the Taliban to stop attacks on Americans.

April 14, 2021: President Biden announces the withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops by Sept. 11.
May 2021:The Taliban begin gaining territory in the north.
July 2021: U.S. troops leave the Bagram Airfield, the key hub for the American war.
August 2021: The Taliban seized control of key cities, Ghani fled away, the government collapses and the capital comes under Taliban control on Aug. 15.

Did USA lose in Afghanistan?

The answer is yes. There’s no other way to say the overall 20-year war other than a failure. The United States didn’t lose the war in the sense that the it was defeated and occupied, but it lost the war in the sense that the costs have been monster. More than 2,300 U.S. military personnel have lost their lives there; more than 20,000 others have been wounded; a trillion dollars or more expended.

… and for what?

The al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead and no major attack on the U.S. has been carried out by a terrorist group based in Afghanistan since 9/11. The United States has been unable to end the violence or hand off the war to the local authorities, and the Afghan government cannot survive without U.S. military backing. And now, when they started departing, Taliban has returned to the original power. So this was a major American failure in History.

Five months ago, President Joe Biden announced that all U.S. and NATO troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Critics have accused the Administration of conducting a rushed, poorly planned, and chaotic withdrawal since then.

Last month: Joe Biden; President of USA said:
“There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of
the United States in Afghanistan. The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything
and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”

The Reality is, the cry to evacuate U.S. civilians and embassy employees from Kabul — the very image that Biden wanted to avoid but unfolded live on television, not from the U.S. Embassy roof but from the landing pad. And now that the Afghan government has collapsed with rocket speed, the Taliban backed in full control. Although, Biden made the right decision to finally exit a war that the US could not win and that was no longer in its national interest, he made a series of mistakes in executing the withdrawal.

Shocking momentum of the Taliban advance

Afghanistan is completely collapsed, with Taliban now captured the national capital, Kabul, other major cities were already demolished in a week. The intelligence assessment warned of a total Taliban seize within 6-12 months of the withdrawal of American troops, later has been revised sharply: first to 1-3 months, then to 72 hours. Given the shocking momentum of the Taliban advance, Kabul collapsed within a day. President, flew away from the country.

There is this saying in Afghanistan that America has the watches, but the Taliban has the time. That really gets this idea that America has the capabilities, but the Taliban has greater commitment.

Cause and sequence of fall of Afghanistan today?

Islamic rule wants to occupy the whole world. This is the main mantra of Islam. Islam is going according to plan so that one day the whole world can be captured.

USA decided to discontinue its military presence in Afghanistan, handing back power to the Taliban after a 20-year intervention. This strange experiment, aiming to create a state based “robust” central institutions has failed miserably. The dream to “make the world a better place” by introducing so-called a secular democracy, institutions (and bureaucracy) has turned out to be an illusion in many places.

It is not a new chapter where we can blame USA for mess in Afghanistan. Afghanistan and Iran, the two terror Headquarters, and the branch office called PLO, were created by the Leftists. In Afghanistan and Iran, Leftists forced a “revolution” and once the old regimes were overthrown, the leftists were diminished by the Muslims. Within weeks in Iran, and within a decade in Afghanistan.

Because despite America’s help, Afghanistan did not learn to fight in 20 years. Despite providing security for years, the US could neither eliminate the Taliban nor secure Afghanistan internally. Russia also proved to be unsuccessful in doing this and after showing speed in the beginning, America also stopped doing anything special.

The deep cause might be lie in the challenges that haunted the Afghan military from the outset, from illiteracy to corruption to incompetence to one of the key problems: a lack of faith in the Kabul government.

So, what is the solution?

The world can’t impose any solution if local don’t want . Afghans do not want roads, schools, hospitals, or any other things that at least brings the hope of mini development. They have believe in Saria laws and want to govern by those idiotic laws only. They just want the golden old days when they could raid the rival tribe and loot their 12 year old girls. Iran also wants exactly the same: freedom to marry 12 year old girls and snatch from the neighbors when they run out of their own.

Actually, in the civilized era, they are the barbarians. The only solution the world has is to ring-fence these barbarians, post the gunmen at the fence with clear orders to shoot any rat that tries to cross the fence.
World has only one problem: allowing the barbarians to migrate into the civilized countries. Withdraw the permission.

What could happen next?

After complete control of Kabul, how the Taliban plan to govern Afghanistan remains unclear.

Women face an uncertain future. Although Taliban said the group will respect the rights of women and minorities “as per Afghan norms and Islamic values”. The militants declared an amnesty across Afghanistan and said it wanted women to join its government.

But there are fears over women’s freedom to work, to dress as they choose, or even to leave home alone under Taliban rule.

Another fear is that the country will once again become a training ground for terrorism.