US hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021
Abdullah Amirzada
Press TV, Kabul
A new report by the United States Institute of Peace reveals that Washington was desperately longing to pull out from Afghanistan.The report also gives details on the costs of the years-long US presence in Afghanistan.
According to a newly released report, the war in Afghanistan incurred staggering costs. The US spent trillions, and more than 7300 were killed from the American side. For Afghans, the statistics are a lot worse: more than 236,000 people lost their lives. 46,000 of them were civilians. But most importantly, the report reveals that the peace process was never a priority for the US.
The report says the US had sold the American public the idea that the Taliban were the worst terrorists, and there was no way they could negotiate with them. This contributed to a political climate in which talking to the Taliban was unacceptable. Also, national security and intelligence institutions overstated the need for revenge for the 9/11 incident; a terrorist attack in 2001, in which no afghans were involved.
The US attacked Afghanistan in 2001. That was the longest war in the US history. According to the report, the reasons for the US incursion were the Taliban’s external haven in Pakistan, the Afghan government’s inability to win legitimacy in insurgent-controlled areas and also Washington’s irrelevant information and miscalculations about Afghanistan.
The United States invaded Afghanistan in the name of fighting the Taliban and bringing security to the country. But Washington’s nearly two decades of military presence ended with a hasty withdrawal, and its invasion left a legacy of destruction and insecurity there.
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