Afghanistan: Biden’s ‘Fall of Saigon’ moment

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There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States [in] Afghanistan,” declared President Joseph Biden just over a month ago.

“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”

Anticipating an eerie return to fundamentalist governance under Taliban, panic-stricken folk in Kabul began redecorating shops and streets, stripping the once-beautiful city of its newfound vibrance in recent years. Countless others tried to flee altogether, scrambling for overprized passports and flocking to overcrowded airports in order to seek refuge in neighboring Iran.

In Biden’s words: “America has sent its finest young men and women, invested nearly $1 trillion, trained over 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, equipped them with state-of-the-artBiden also correctly pointed out that his withdrawal plan was conditioned by former president Donald Trump’s haphazard “peace deal” with the Taliban last year.

Year after year, American troops and diplomats came in, yet few bothered to even learn the language and truly appreciate the customs and beliefs of their Afghan hosts. The upshot of this ingrained “culturally disdainful” attitude, as one expert put it, is the perennial lack of mutual trust and confidence, which was further exacerbated by Biden’s hasty exit.

 

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