Posted on 08/23/2022 9:41:39 AM PDT by Phoenix8
A year ago today, the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban swept into the Afghan capital of Kabul following the collapse of the country's elected government. The last member of the U.S. military left 15 days later, capping almost 20 tumultuous years of American involvement in the central Asian country.
It started after the Taliban harbored al Qaeda and its leader Usama bin Laden – the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The withdrawal, meanwhile, fulfilled President Biden's announcement in April last year that all American forces and personnel would leave Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Having recaptured territories throughout Afghanistan, the Taliban’s re-taking of Kabul was rapid and, according to many observers, not surprising.
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Biden hastened the Taliban takeover and left hundreds of American citizens stranded. However, I doubt that any withdrawal would have not eventually resulted in Taliban takeover. Afghanistan is too rooted in Islamic fundamentalism to ever be changed. This is Islam’s curse.
Dam…you mean counting the infrastructure etc?
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