Afghanistan

By Kadir A. Mohman Honorable Gary Peters U.S. Senate Member of Armed Services Committee Hart Senate Office Building Suite 724 Washington, DC 20510 RE: Afghanistan Dear Senator Peters: President Biden’s announcement this past month to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan under a “delayed” Doha Agreement is welcomed news for Afghans and Americans alike. ANPC welcomes the departure of US/NATO occupying foreign troops from Afghanistan. With the removal of U. S. Troops, the U.S. and other foreigners must remove themselves from Afghanistan’s internal affairs. The Intra-Afghan gatherings and reunification processes are internal matters that should be left entirely to the Afghans themselves. The US/NATO and other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, e...

Afghanistan has had internal rivalry for a long long time U.S. exit will begin before May 1 and will be completed by Sept. 11 at the latest By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor  …from Politico [ Editor’s Note: These troop withdrawals are now melodramatic, as everyone knows that it will be canceled if US forces are attacked before the September 11 date, something that is quite easy to arrange by a number of entities on both the US/NATO sides and Afghanistan. But it makes Biden look good, and when attacks do happen, he has cover by being able to say he did the best he could, and that will probably be true. As VT has covered over and over, and something that well funded geopolitical media is well aware of, there can be no peace in Afghanistan without an ‘...

By VT Editors Submitted to VT by the Washington Post The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe and Alex Horton report:More than 800,000 people served in Afghanistan in the U.S. military, and many of them are reflecting anew on what the war achieved and the meaning of their individual parts in it. […] The planned departure has evoked a range of emotions among veterans of the conflict. Some felt withdrawal was inevitable, the frustrating result of repeated mistakes and missed opportunities. The rebuilding of Afghanistan and the establishment of good governance seem as distant as ever. So does the end of violence. Excerpts: “I think for the people who fought on D-Day, it was probably nice for those who survived to go on vacation in France 30 years later and see what th...

BY RON JACOBSFacebookTwitterRedditEmail Photograph Source: The U.S. Army – CC BY 2.0 The United States military and mercenary forces need to leave Afghanistan now. Even Donald Trump understood this, at least in public.  The US mission was a failure within a year of its 2001 invasion.  It could not and cannot reshape the political landscape in that nation.  It tried in the 1970s and the 1980s when it created and armed the mujaheddin to fight the Soviet-supported government.  It couldn’t mold the nation of Afghanistan into a willing client after the Taliban marched into Kabul.  It has failed to do so since it invaded the country in 2001 under the pretense of going after  Osama bin Laden.  To repeat, the US needs to leave the people of Afgha...