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By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL KABUL, Afghanistan©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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OssanAmerica
Wow...20 years. And I used to think Vietnam was bad.
dagon
The lightning speed of the push has shocked many and raised questions about why Afghan forces crumbled despite years of U.S. training and billions of dollars spent. Just days ago, an American military assessment estimated it would be a month before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.
You can talk about a grave of empires and all that but Afghanistan will not have that much effect on the trajectory of that. The real tragedy as always the lives of people in Afghanistan and the generation of coalition soldiers who served there for a tottering government.
vanityofvanities
This is a civil war. Let them take care of themselves.
ShinkansenCaboose
Good luck Taliban and be nice to your country. You finally got back what belongs to you.
cla68
As Trump just pointed out, the Taliban moved fast because they have zero fear or respect for the Biden White House. What a disaster.
commanteer
I agree, in that the decline of the US empire is a foregone conclusion. However, perception matters. The US has been hollowed out but the perception of strength has remained. This will help deflate that perception. Once the US is seen as hollow, the collapse will accelerate.
Randy Johnson
What's happening now perfectly symbolizes this current pathetic joke of a so-called administration. An absolute abomination of governance.
Randy Johnson
I agree, in that the decline of the US empire is a foregone conclusion. However, perception matters. The US has been hollowed out but the perception of strength has remained. This will help deflate that perception. Once the US is seen as hollow, the collapse will accelerate
Yes and no. But what doesn't help at all is when the US has a morbidly weak leader who frustratingly clueless about so many thigs.
rainyday
20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands of American and allied lives lost and Afghanistan is basically going back to exactly what it was on September 10th, 2001.
What a stupid waste that was.
Sven Asai
No news here. That’s all been clear from the time before it even started 20 years ago till today. Only one little surprise, but in fact even that is no real surprise, that they don’t even try to resist at some places, but hand it over to the Taliban at high speed countrywide.
Kumagaijin
Thing is, the Taliban of 2001 are not the same as the Taliban of 2021. Just as the North Vietnamese were not the scary communists that the US media made them out to be. I wouldn't be surprised if the "new" Taliban end up being much less extreme as they have been portrayed by the Western media. From the interviews I've seen, the Taliban are just as motivated to end US military occupation, as the Palestinians are to end Israeli occupation and I see no problem with that.
Randy Johnson
True story. Under this current abomination of this so-called administration, there are two full blown humanitarian crises. Afghanistan and the US southern border. And to think, some still try to feign special joe is just a good ol' guy. Nope. He ain't. Never was.
He's created a lot of mesees over the years and Afghanistan is his latest one.
Wakarimasen
went back on the US word. And here is the result. Who voted for this clown?
Slayer
Civil war is inevitable.
mrtinjp
Good luck Taliban and be nice to your country. You finally got back what belongs to you.
The Taliban was created and is all but managed by the Pakistani military, they are the ones taking over..and they definitely do not represent anything local.
ulysses
There’s no civil war for now, it’s over.
The taliban will take control, the warlords will rule their areas, until the taliban messes up again and foreign troops come in.
Afghans fight guerilla wars, conventional fighting is not their thing.