Afghanistan: one year after the return of the Taliban

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A year has passed since the Americans and the international coalition left Afghanistan.

The images of the flight of thousands of people from the Kabul airport still seem alive, images that match those of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. There too the Americans were forced to leave the country after more than ten years of war.

The war has been fought in Afghanistan since 2001, when the American administration, led by George Walker Bush, identified the Taliban regime as the base of Al-Qaeda terrorists, responsible, according to the Americans, for the attacks of 11 September 2001.

Despite the creation of a pro-Western government, the Taliban have never been completely eliminated, remaining barricaded in rural areas of the country. Then, from May 2021, the Taliban militias resume the offensive and, in a short time, reconquer Afghanistan, triumphantly entering Kabul on August 15, 2021.

The return to power of the students of the Koranic schools, as the word Taliban is translated, is not only the fruit of their strength, but also the idea that the United States has allowed it to be done.

According to a report that will be released by some Republican deputies in the United States, the American evacuation from Kabul was badly organized. The report indicates that there were only 36 State Department officials on the ground at Kabul airport in August 2021, or one for nearly 3,500 evacuees.

The report, of which the CNN television channel obtained a copy, also accuses the Biden administration of not accurately portraying the nature of events on the ground and of not having prepared a plan to prevent US-trained Afghan commandos from being recruited by the Taliban. In short, what emerges from this information is that the United States was in a hurry to leave Afghanistan, regardless of the thousands of people who wanted to leave the country, that is, those who risked their lives at the hands of the Taliban because of their collaboration with the old pro-American regime.

The human rights situation is also worrying.

The Taliban have publicly pledged to protect and promote human rights. But the speed at which they are dismantling 20 years of human rights progress is astounding, Any hope of change has vanished as the Taliban try to govern through violent repression with total impunity.

The United States, after propagating for decades how bad and dangerous the Islamic world was and making every imaginative justification to wage war, suddenly loses interest in Afghanistan and gives it back to the Taliban.

Why? An answer to this question can be found in geopolitics. Times change, strategies and enemies as well. Looking ahead, with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and one that could break out in Taiwan, it is clear that the United States has different interests on its agenda rather than still dealing with the Taliban and radical Islamic terrorism.

It matters little whether, according to some analysts, Afghanistan is once again becoming the center of the new international terrorism, or whether the country is one of the largest opium producers in the world.

References:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/house-republicans-afghanistan-report/index.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/returning-to-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-fall-of-kabul

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-14/afghanistan-taliban-takeover-withdrawal-one-year-anniversary

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