The Macedonians, Arabs, Persians, British, Russians have
come and gone and now the Americans are preparing to do the same.
The infamous Bagram Air Base,
known as the Guantanamo bay of Afghanistan or the Abu Ghraib of Iraq, where the
Americans were ‘interrogating’ prisoners employing methods that can only be
described as torture has been handed to the Afghan government; these are signs building
up towards an American exit that is scheduled for December 2014 that started in
2001 following the events of 9/11.
With the rise of violence from
2006 onwards, particularly the “green on blue” attack is the exit represents
the American-led mission a complete failure or it constitutes a calculated
withdrawal from Afghanistan having met the objectives. The truth I believe lies
somewhere in between, the withdrawal has been hastened by the economic crisis
within the US as debts mount up, and elimination of Usamah Bin Laden and other
leading members have more or less crippled the Taliban and remnants of Al-Qaeda
has vanished from that part. Many of the Taliban are living across the border.
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