Could The Fall Of Kabul In Afghanistan A Strategic Failure

Coul d t he Fal l of Kabul in Af ghanistan BE a St r at egic Fail ur e?

That the issue of the Taliban overran the sitting president within 72 hours of the US. pulling out of Afghanistan is astonishing. What could have gone wrong? Speculation and various opinions are circulating on the mainstream media and social networks. The horrific images of desperate Afghanistan people clenching to a moving U.S. Air Force jet in a desperate bid to flee their country shows the height of desperation. Furthermore, those who managed to hold onto the jet fell from the sky to their death.

According to the U.Spresident, Joe Biden "The U.S. cannot continue to pour resources into an intractable war and expect different results, '' Biden said in an article published by AAMERMAKHANI and Mathew Lee on April 14, 2021.

The Sunday, August 8, 2021 event was a clear indication that the absence of the U.Smilitary forces created a serious vacuum. Joe Biden has clearly stated that ?They have got to fight for themselves.? referring to the Afghan government and its people.

Did the United States intelligence know that the Taliban would overrun their government?Absolutely, but the speed with which the Taliban did that surprised the U.Sand its allies.

The Afghanistan war has spread across four U.Spresidents from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, to Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden.

The U.Slaunched the war following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Afghan conflict has lasted for two decades when the Taliban was believed to be the mastermind of the September 11 attack that killed 2,763 people after the two planes slammed into the twin towers.

According to the report posted on the History Channel website, ?Overall, the conflict resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and a $2 trillion price tag.? The U.S. former president Donald Trump saw the two decades of war in a very remote and disaster country as a complete waste of resources and lives of the USmen/women in uniform, including innocent Afghanistan young women and children.

To withdraw the UStroops, Trump promised to end the war on his "America First" campaign. However, his efforts were frustrated in an Afghan political system rooted in high-level corruption that truncated the U.S. withdrawal mission. It was learned that Trump strategically bypassed the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban and on February 29, 2020 he signed a promise to pull all U.S. troops out by May 1, 2021.

Biden, whose record has been ending the endless war in Afghanistan, did not reverse Trump?s agreement with the Taliban when he took office. However, he allowed a few more months by the 20years anniversary of September to pull out UStroops and evacuate UScivilians as well as Afghan interpreters and others who helped the USwar effort.

However, the overrun was quite suprising and the Taliban tenacity was miscalculated. This resulted to the current sutuation in Kabul which was taken over by the Taliban which is currently running the government of Afghanistan. With the latest event in Afghanistan, it is quite clear that putting a problem on a life support system does not systematically solve the problem, but automatically weakens the critical organism that could fight against external forces.

Credit: CPL Sam Shepherd

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