Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy and a member of the Eisenhower Media Network . He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
tWithin hours of President Joe Biden's announcement that US forces will leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, objections and remonstrations appeared across US media. These protests are nearly all disingenuous, false and specious, and meant to utilize fear to continue a tragic and purposeless war.
Matthew HohMuch of the argument against withdrawal ignores how truly counterproductive the war in Afghanistan has been. Consider just two facts: In the years prior to the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan and Pakistan were home to four international terror groups. Now, the Pentagon testifies that the number of such terror groups has grown to 20 or moreSecond, when the US first invaded Afghanistan, al Qaeda counted around 400 total members worldwide.
Opinion They would have Plans for some other country, mostly a muslim.after destroying Iraq, Surya, Yemen and Afghanistan! Bravo brutal army! For increasing hatred and hostility to muslim world, increasing terrorism!
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