(International observation) How can the fireworks in the sky illuminate the road to the future when the US military ends the "longest war"?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, August 31st, title: The US military ends the "longest war" How can the fireworks in the sky light up the road to the future?

　　China News Agency reporter Zhang Chenyi

　　The last U.S. C-17 transport plane took off on the evening of the 30th, and then the gunfire of the celebration rang through the Kabul Airport, and fireworks lit up the night sky.

Mackenzie, the commander of the US Central Command, announced that the US military has completed the task of withdrawing from Afghanistan.

This not only marked the end of the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan, but also the end of the nearly 20-year military operation started by the US military in Afghanistan after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

　　This "longest in US history" military operation has left Afghan lives in disarray, tortured people, and difficult development prospects.

This also shows once again that hegemony and force cannot solve the problem.

On August 31, local time, after all U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban Badri Special Forces stood guard next to a fighter plane of the Afghan Air Force at Kabul Airport.

Immeasurable head and blood

　　According to public information, a total of more than 30,000 civilians in Afghanistan have been killed by the US military or died due to the war brought by the US military, and more than 60,000 civilians have been injured. About 11 million people have become refugees, which is close to one-third of the entire population of Afghanistan. one.

According to statistics from the "Actions on Armed Violence" organization, between 2016 and 2020, about 1,600 Afghan children were killed or injured in air strikes.

　　Years of gunfire has also had a huge psychological impact on the local people, and man-made disasters that may fall from the sky at any time make it rare for the people to sleep overnight.

But even with such a price, it is difficult to exchange for a peaceful scene.

For example, the irresponsible and disorderly withdrawal of the US military alone has caused a great tragedy: on August 26, a suicide bomb attack occurred outside the Kabul airport, killing at least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 US troops.

　　This is also a microcosm of the U.S. military operations in Afghanistan in the past 20 years: local people and U.S. soldiers are victims of war.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Milli said earlier that about 2,500 US troops were killed in the war in Afghanistan and more than 20,000 were injured.

A study by Brown University in the United States pointed out that in the past 20 years, the United States has invested about 2.26 trillion U.S. dollars in the war in Afghanistan, which is equivalent to more than 300 million U.S. dollars a day.

According to U.S. media reports, the United States has spent about 300 billion U.S. dollars on the care of war-disabled soldiers, and it is expected to invest about 500 billion U.S. dollars in the future.

　　The Afghan people have gone through a thousand calamities, and only American politicians and military capital have made a lot of money.

It was reported on August 29, 2021 local time that a residential area near the Afghan capital Kabul International Airport was hit by rockets on the 29th, killing 6 civilians.

Image source: Surging Images

Riddled with mess

　　According to Al Jazeera, the Afghan Taliban welcomed the withdrawal of the US troops, believing that this is a historic moment and that Afghanistan has achieved "complete independence".

　　In recent decades, the history of Afghanistan has been like a drama of ups and downs, full of absurdity, tragedy and fear.

Twenty years ago, the United States forcibly intervened in the situation in Afghanistan and disrupted the development process.

The United States is left with a mess that is riddled with holes, which needs to be cleaned up by the Afghans themselves.

An Atta spokesperson previously stated that it plans to form an inclusive government.

The outside world expects that this should be a government based on the unity of all factions and nationalities, a government that conforms to the interests of the Afghan people and national conditions, and a government with considerable executive power.

　　Years of war have led to economic decline in Afghanistan. About 72% of the people live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is as high as 38%.

The United States was also supporting the drug industry in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has become the world’s largest poppy grower and opium producer, with opium production exceeding 85% of the world’s total production.

How to deal with these problems will test the ability of the Afghan government in the future.

　　Atta also needs to think about how to deal with the international community.

An Atta spokesperson declared on the 31st that "The United States has been defeated... We hope to maintain good relations with other countries." In addition, the international community hopes that Afghanistan will never become the birthplace of terrorism and the distribution center for terrorists.

On August 31, the U.S. Central Command released an image taken by night vision goggles on August 30, 2021: At Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and 18th Airborne Corps commander Major General Chris Donahue boarded a C-17 transport plane.

He was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan.

Hegemony is the source of the problem

　　Twenty years ago, the United States launched the war in Afghanistan on the grounds of anti-terrorism, which was another show of American hegemony.

Twenty years later, U.S. troops hurriedly withdrew, and even U.S. media reported that the Biden administration was "extremely surprised" at how quickly Kabul fell.

　　This also fully proves that the United States' attempts to impose its own values ​​on other nations and civilizations cannot be successful, nor can it succeed in using military force to solve the various problems it says.

If it overrides the international order and rules and ignores the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of other countries, then hegemony can only be the creator of the problem and will never be the solver of the problem.

　　There is nothing new under the sun.

The withdrawal of the US military is considered to be a repeat of the "fall of Saigon" in Afghanistan, which has once again greatly damaged the image and credibility of the United States.

The French newspaper Le Figaro pointed out: “Europeans will pay a high price for the failure of the United States.” The German president also stated that the cruel scene at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan has humiliated the West.

　　The famous American scholar Francis Fukuyama said in an article on the Economist website that after the collapse of the US-backed government, the desperate Afghans trying to escape the terrible scene of Kabul has become an important moment in world history.

"The truth behind these things is: the end of the American era is much earlier than we originally thought."

　　Fukuyama said that Biden’s biggest failure at the moment is that he has not prepared adequate plans for the rapid collapse of the Afghan government.

In addition, the issue of domestic polarization in the United States has damaged the United States' global influence, and the attractiveness of the United States' "soft power" has also been greatly weakened.

"The United States is unlikely, and should not be eager to restore its earlier hegemony." He said.

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