17 years, Osama bin Laden is dead and the USA is still in Afghanistan.
I am not alone and in good company.
By Barry B. Rosen
After a Taliban attack in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on Aug.16, 2018.
“It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end,” (click here) Gen. John Nicholson said as he relinquished command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Seventeen years of war have shown no plausible theory of success to justify additional U.S. costs and more killing in Afghanistan. Though Nicholson directed his war-ending advice at the Taliban, and reiterated U.S. commitment to the fight, he offered no theory of victory.
Supporters of the war claim that its political purpose is to bring the Taliban to the bargaining table. The Taliban want U.S. departure; the U.S. wants Taliban capitulation. There is no common ground, and policymakers must know this.
The sad political purpose of endless U.S. military involvement is for leaders to be seen trying to prevent terrorists from once again launching international attacks out of Afghanistan. But the U.S. presence in Afghanistan cannot prevent future terrorist outrages....
The answer to ending the terror of the Taliban is to recognize Pakistan's role in their continued presence in the region. The Taliban are a militia, they are not ethnic and have no rights under any human rights convention. If anything the Taliban violate any human rights issue and cause hardship and death.
The truth is while the government of Pakistan is friendly to any country in the world and carry out no war with any, they harbored the Taliban and protected Osama bin Laden until his death. Today, the Taliban has reconstituted their numbers and are still a threat to the Afghan government.
The people of Pakistan have mostly driven them out of their country, but, only to settle in Afghanistan and the western border of Iran. The people most responsible for the ongoing problems in Afghanistan are Pakistan's ISI and the Iranian government and their elite forces. The Taliban serve the purpose of keeping the USA military busy so they can't cause any more problems as in Iraq.
If Afghanistan is to have peace among their people, it is up to the government to supply sufficient national security. Right now the USA is occupying Afghanistan to the suffering of it's people. The USA does not belong there.
Daesh has been driven out of every other country in the world, EXCEPT, Afghanistan.
The USA causes more problems than they solve, it is time to bring the troops home and for their humanitarian mission they should bring home all the scrap military melt in downed machines and otherwise; home to the USA for recycling. The children of Afghanistan need playgrounds, not makeshift playgrounds of downed and abandoned aircraft.
August 15, 2018
By Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah
Abul, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber (click here) targeted students preparing for university exams in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 25 young men and women studying together in an attack that was blamed on Deash (ISIS).
Najib Danish, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, said at least 35 people were also wounded in the attack that struck a private building in the Shiite Dasht-i Barcha area of Kabul. He feared the casualty toll could rise further.
The explosion initially set off gunfire from Afghan guards in the area, leading to assumptions that there were more attackers involved, but officials later said all indications were that there was only one bomber....
