Here’s the Real Reason for the Dire Situation in Afghanistan Today

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Kabul today is starting to look like Saigon in 1975, and the long-predicted return to power of the Taliban appears imminent. Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai knows who is responsible for the catastrophe: no, not himself and his corrupt government, but his American patrons. Karzai said that “the US has failed. Instead of saying that they have helped Afghanistan stabilise, they leave, and the general leaving, is warning of a civil war.

So that means they have failed but we Afghans have not.” Yes, of course. We were supposed to stay there until the lion lies down with the lamb and Nancy Pelosi votes Republican, to help Afghanistan stabilize. But aside from his bluster and self-aggrandizement, Karzai has a point: the American misadventure in Afghanistan has been mishandled from the beginning.

Karzai asserted that at the beginning of this two-decade-long excursion, the U.S. “did very good” in helping Afghanistan get on its feet. “The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome and produced good results for the country.”

That was about all, however. “But subsequently,” he continued, “they began to rather than going and drying the sanctuaries outside of Afghanistan, in Pakistan, which is what they themselves reported about, they began bombing and hurting Afghan people and creating prisons in our own country. That led to where we are today.”

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