{"id":12302,"date":"2024-08-26T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:59:23","slug":"three-years-after-withdrawal-taliban-rules-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12302","title":{"rendered":"Three Years After Withdrawal, Taliban Rules Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week will mark the three-year anniversary of President Joe Biden\u2019s chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Biden committed on the campaign trail to withdraw U.S. troops, a move supported by his predecessor Donald Trump, but the process left 13 U.S. service members killed and the country within the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n

The Taliban also received billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment because it was left behind.<\/p>\n

Federal officials have pointed to an effort to render that equipment unusable, but the rapid collapse in the country left little time to actually finish and accomplish that destruction of equipment.<\/p>\n

The Taliban held a military parade featuring U.S. military equipment earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat added insult to injury to all of this was the way in which it was conducted, the unnecessary impetus behind it which led to the \u2026 collapse\u201d and even \u201carmed our adversaries,\u201d Robert Greenway, a former top intelligence and national security official in the U.S. government for decades who is now at the Heritage Foundation, told The Center Square.<\/p>\n

He added that Biden left them \u201cas the best armed terrorist state in the history of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

An eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has long been on the table as a possibility for both parties, but letting the country fall back into the hands of the Taliban was at one time considered unthinkable and eventually became expected by many experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Taliban never really had entirety of control over Afghanistan,\u201d Greenway said. \u201cThis is the closest they\u2019ve been to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he added that that grip is \u201ctenuous\u201d and \u201cdevolving.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the July before the withdrawal, Biden said that Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was \u201cnot inevitable and that he trusted Afghanistan\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a \u2013 it\u2019s a silly question,\u201d Biden continued, when asked by a reporter if he trusts the Taliban. \u201cDo I trust the Taliban? No. But I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more re- \u2013 more competent in terms of conducting war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afghanistan fell into the Taliban\u2019s hands almost immediately, something intelligence and security experts predicted.<\/p>\n

Greenway said the Taliban has called on the \u201cfaithful\u201d to return to Afghanistan, which increases the threat to the U.S. homeland. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. were planned and launched from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately means a regional threat but more importantly means a threat against the U.S. homeland is on the march and actively coalescing,\u201d Greenway said.<\/p>\n

Greenway said Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban takeover affects the Iran, Israel and Hamas conflict \u201ca great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss of presence in Afghanistan has removed a sort of regional forward operating base across the world by which to act quickly in the Middle East, and that loss of deterrence leads to a more volatile region, Greenway said.<\/p>\n

He also said the withdrawal sent a message to other powers like Russia, Iran and Ukraine that the U.S. didn\u2019t have the will to act decisively and efficiently militarily, lowering the deterrence threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel sorry for the people that are going to have to go back into Afghanistan when an attack happens on the U.S. homeland,\u201d Greenway said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. armed forces are in a recruiting crisis, falling short of target recruitment goals across branches, something Greenway argues escalated after the Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have confidence in leadership, in the commander in chief, you don\u2019t have anything,\u201d Greenway said.<\/p>\n

Women in particular have suffered since the U.S. left, with the Taliban banning education for women over the sixth grade among other laws that essentially ban women from showing their faces or speaking loudly in public.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2021, the situation has worsened with the collapse of the economy and restrictions on women\u2019s rights,\u201d Gallup said in a release of a recent survey. \u201cGallup surveys have found that 96% of Afghan women are suffering under the Taliban, and most do not feel that women in Afghanistan are treated with respect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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