Because she only cares about her own interests
The American way of waging wars is flawed and generates automatic failure
Trump signed a unilateral agreement to withdraw the US military from Afghanistan.
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Drones used by the US military to launch raids on Afghanistan.
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The attempt to find a party to blame for not expecting the Taliban's lightning victory and the disintegration of Afghan government forces conceals the most important strategic lessons of the Afghan war.
It is known that most of the historical turning points come suddenly, because the forces that are subjected to this transformation, if they were aware of its coming, would certainly avoid falling into it.
Events of great importance and unexpectedness, such as the fall of France in 1940, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, have always been followed by many questions that experts did not expect them to happen.
Investigations go deep into the search for the deep causes of historical changes and always reveal them.
The root causes of important historical transformations have always been improvised decisions that could easily be changed.
For example, if the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein changed his mind at the last moment for the occupation of Kuwait, many things in our world would have changed.
I have always said that it is the corruption, weakness, and illegitimacy of the Afghan government that leads to events, not the strength of the Taliban.
Although this situation was not satisfactory, it would have continued had it not been for former US President Donald Trump signed a unilateral withdrawal agreement with the Taliban in February 2020. The president who was succeeded by John Biden announced the start of the withdrawal at the end of last August.
But the details of how everything could suddenly collapse and be avoided are hotly debated, and the most important lesson was that the American way of waging wars is flawed and breeds spontaneous failure.
Claims that Washington could have prevented the resurgence of the Taliban had it not occupied itself with the Iraq war, or had not devoted much time to rebuilding the country in Afghanistan, should be dismissed as unhelpful nonsense.
America won the war in the first months of 2002, when it managed to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda fled to Pakistan.
But the White House continued the war on terror even in the absence of terrorists, because that was completely appealing to the American people as a slogan and policy, following the shock of September 11th.
US forces backed the bandit warlords from 1992 to 1996 whose actions led to the emergence of the Taliban.
All this led to the discrediting of the anti-Taliban forces and the return of the Taliban, as stated by the American journalist Anand Gopal in his book, “There is no good man among the living.” of Taliban men he replaced with criminal warlords who describe anyone as a "terrorist" if he opposes their will.
Afghans felt that the arrival of the Americans could improve their lives, but quickly realized that they were delusional when many of them were mistreated and imprisoned at Bagram Air Base.
Gopal described how US forces attacked the school and the governor's house in an area in 2002, destroying most of the area's homes in one night.
All these mistakes contributed to the Taliban's return two decades later.
Gopal says: “I was in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan in 2014, covering the news of three villages in the Afghan province of Farar, which were bombed by US aircraft, which resulted in the killing of 117 people, including 61 children, after the local police called for the strike.
Although there was a 15-foot-deep crater caused by the bombing, the US forces spokesman initially claimed that all this killing was caused by a hand grenade that the Taliban threw on these houses.
The motivations of young men to join the Taliban have increased in recent years, according to reports, for reasons not related to Islam, but, as the fighters say, as a result of the killing and destruction that civilians are exposed to as a result of night raids.
And the US military reduced the number of casualties in its ranks by using raids and drones that were operated by people who depended on opaque and incomprehensible satellite imagery.
Patrick Cockburn ■ British journalist
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