This morning, the Taliban announced that, contrary to the agreement reached yesterday, they had reached an agreement with the Afghan “government” for the transfer of “peaceful” power, and they sent their fighters to Kabul to maintain peace. See Report: Taliban enters Kabul, negotiates peaceful transfer to “transitional” government.
comfirmed. #IEA Order its troops to enter #accept To prevent violation of law and discipline. Now is a sensitive situation. Gang, #ANDSF Deserters in the street, #Taliban add #NATO power #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/huXJxPKDun
-Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai Kayani (Drexy Baba) (@RisboLensky) August 15, 2021
Everyone is passionate about autumn, so I will join me.
This is a war we won and we chose to lose abnormally. When the Battle of Tora Bora ended in December 2001, we had achieved 100% of the goals that President Bush set out in his speech to the country on October 7, 2001.
§5 More than two weeks ago, I made a series of clear and specific requirements to the Taliban leaders: closing terrorist training camps; handing over the leaders of the Al-Qaida network; and repatriating all foreigners unjustly detained in your country, Including U.S. citizens. None of these requirements have been met. Now the Taliban will pay the price.
§6 By destroying camps and interrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for terrorist networks to train recruits and coordinate their evil plans. Initially, terrorists may go deep into caves and other deep-rooted hiding places. Our military operations are also aimed at clearing the way for continuous, comprehensive and relentless operations, expelling them and bringing them to justice.
§7 At the same time, the oppressed people of Afghanistan will understand the generosity of the United States and our allies. As we fight military targets, we will also provide food, medicine and supplies to hungry and suffering Afghan boys and girls.
There is no reason to intervene in Afghanistan. “Tell” is that no one can tell you what the victory in Afghanistan is like. It has no national identity, no common language, almost no natural resources, at best the roads and power grids of the Middle Ages, no national economy, no history of civil society. It is inland, isolated and impoverished.If you talk to anyone other than Afghans, it seems very satisfied with the status quo migrant On the DC cocktail circuit.
The right solution, the school’s solution, if you want, should be to withdraw the US army instead of some special forces consultants, provide technical assistance to troops trying to establish a new government, and emphasize the warning to the new government if terrorists Using Afghanistan as a refuge again, we will come back to kill and destroy things.
That is not what happened.
In fact, considering the actions of the Bush and Obama administrations, it is difficult for me to believe that Afghanistan’s strategy is much more serious than the freshman diplomacy seminar held at the Ivy League university, which is quite a close relative.
Take the production of opium as an example. How does Habib the Talib make honest money? He grows poppies. what are we going to do? We send DEA and contractors to eradicate poppies. What does the Taliban Habib do? He picked up his AK and fought against the people who pushed him and his family further into poverty.
One of the most heartbreaking things is the story/video that starts to appear like this:
“We don’t count, because we are from Afghanistan. We will slowly die in history”
The tears of a desperate Afghan girl, as the Taliban advance in the country, her future is shattering.
I am heartbroken for Afghan women. The world failed them. History will be written like this. pic.twitter.com/i56trtmQtF
-Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) August 13, 2021
McMaster said it was all about “Western values” #trump card Photos from 1972 #Afghanistan Women in miniskirts escalate the war https://t.co/e2LgDgMijs pic.twitter.com/d8djtmm2ZY
-Saad Abedine 🤬😷🤟🏼 (@SaadAbedine) August 23, 2017
When the US military leaves Afghanistan, what does some people think is inevitable? What do we think will happen when we try to impose Western norms (no, in Afghanistan outside of Kabul, compared to Iran outside of Tehran, miniskirts are no longer part of Afghan life) to a very conservative and traditional society ?
The first thing we did was alienate tribal leaders who could have helped stabilize Afghanistan and turned them into enemies. The second thing we did was to determine that the US military opposed Afghan culture and customs. The third thing we did was to clearly determine that any local people who support these changes are enemies of Afghan society.
Now we see such nonsense-they caused problems but no skin in the game-shed crocodile tears for their betrayers:
This deleted tweet from a senior Biden State Department official captured the personal feelings of many others. pic.twitter.com/uoeEukSerh
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) August 13, 2021
It is tragic what happens to women who are fooled into thinking that a) they do not live in Afghanistan and b) theorists like the above tweet author can provide some protection for their society. But the tweets about “our achievements” and “giving them leadership” are a sad and sad metaphor for our two decades in the war in Afghanistan. “We” got nothing because we got nothing. We could have ended our participation in 2001, taking Afghanistan as an objective lesson for others to consider taking action. we do not have.
We can never “authorize them to lead” because they do not occupy a space where we do not have the power to exceed the maximum effective range of the 5.56 mm M855A1. What they will endure is the arrogant price of a group of scholars who believe they can change a culture deeply rooted in tradition and religion and hostile foreign influence.
Why the crocodile’s tears? Because the “women and girls” part of the equation has never been about human rights and changing the status of women in Afghanistan; Western feminists are always excited about the idea of what they can do when they have “power.”
It is easy to prove this. One of the many hateful practices in Afghanistan is “bacha bazi”. These boys were adopted as concubines by older Afghan men. Usually, senior Afghan commanders on both sides would travel with a group of fancy boys to enjoy their fun. Someone told me that the Lincoln plan tried to introduce this approach to the United States and achieved a certain degree of success.Then we are against the blatant abuse of sex trading laws and Leich’s Law? nothing much.
According to a report released by the Pentagon’s inspector general on Thursday, the US military was told to ignore the rape and abuse of children by the Afghan security forces that worked with them.
“In some cases, interviewees explained that they or people they know were told that due to Afghanistan’s status as a sovereign state, there is nothing to do with child sexual abuse. This is not a priority for the command, or it is better to ignore this Let the local police handle the situation,” the report read.
Although the report found that there was no written guidance telling the US military to ignore allegations of abuse, the cultural awareness training for American personnel deployed to Afghanistan identified child sexual abuse as a culturally recognized practice in Afghanistan.
The report quoted an anonymous interviewee as saying: “There are several cases where service personnel brought the matter to the commander’s attention, and they said we could do nothing.” “There is no way to stop them from leaving the bacha bazi. Soldiers [were] Was told to ignore it and continue driving. “
Sometimes, when soldiers do try to stop this practice, they will be punished by the military for it.
Although Biden has turned a mere failure into a shameful defeat (see my opinion on this issue) here), when someone thought it was a good idea to expand President Bush’s mission to overthrow the Taliban government and expel al-Qaeda, the seeds of this goat rope were already sown. We must also reform Afghan society.
The reform was imposed on Afghanistan, and now we can see that it has met with strong opposition from everyone. The president ran away.The Afghan army is defecting from the Taliban (see BOMBSHELL: Did the Taliban pay the Afghan military commander for the early surrender of the city?) Or flee to Iran because it is not loyal to a locally corrupt and weak and incompetent government.
A convoy of Afghan army military vehicles worried about being captured by the Taliban fled to Iran today through the Gamshad border bazaar near the Iranian city of Zabul in southwestern Afghanistan.
Iranians will be happy to use these Hummers. pic.twitter.com/Z46NFUsgem-Mehdi H. (@mhmiranusa) August 13, 2021
Unfortunately, in the military and political channels, I have not seen any signs that other than shirk responsibility, people are considering the real lessons of Afghanistan; see Biden orders the withdrawal of Afghan troops despite warnings from senior generals: reportThe condolences you hear and see are not for the two decades of conflict imposed by Afghanistan, for the death and maiming of the United States and the Allies, or for the retaliation that has occurred.
Kandahar: The Afghans were dragged out of their homes and executed by the Taliban. pic.twitter.com/bFhGT8Yvdl
— Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 15, 2021
The mourning is a great experiment for nation-building. The experiment failed so bizarre that the American public might never let it happen again.
