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From Associated Press
After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban have retaken half the country, security is worse than it’s ever been, and many Afghans place the blame squarely on the Americans.
The United States has lost more than 2,400 soldiers in its longest war, and has spent more than $900 billion on everything from military operations to the construction of roads, bridges and power plants. Three U.S. presidents have pledged to bring peace to Afghanistan, either by adding or withdrawing troops, by engaging the Taliban or shunning them. Last year, the U.S. dropped the “mother of all bombs” on a cave complex.
None of it has worked. After years of frustration, Afghanistan is rife with conspiracy theories, including the idea that Americans didn’t stumble into a forever war, but planned one all along.
Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, a member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, wonders how U.S. and NATO forces — which at their peak numbered 150,000 and fought alongside hundreds of thousands of Afghan troops, were unable to vanquish tens of thousands of Taliban.
“Either they did not want to or they could not do it,” he said. He now suspects the U.S. and its ally Pakistan deliberately sowed chaos in Afghanistan to justify the lingering presence of foreign forces — now numbering around 15,000 — in order to use the country as a listening post to monitor Iran, Russia and China.
COMMENT:-
Such ingratitude!!! Don't those people realize that America liberated them? Not only that, but they aren't paying their own share of the cost of defending themselves!!! Why, if it hadn't been for the fact that the US drove the invaders out of Afghanistan the Afghans would all be speaking Dari and Pashto instead of their native language - Afghanistanish.
On the other hand, isn't it nice to see that there are "Conspiracy Theory Nuts" in other countries too.
As if things were better under the Taliban, without education and 70 women in elected office.
WHats your point? All i see is sarcasm. If youre going to post Breaking News, be serious.
If we had consulted history............
“Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia and South Asia.[1][2] The Afghanistan area has been invaded many times in recorded history, but no invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time,[citation needed] and at some point faced rebellion.[citation needed] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire of ancient India, Alexander the Great of Macedon, Umar, an Arab Caliphate, Genghis Khan of Mongolia, Timur of Persia and Central Asia, the Mughal Empire of India, various Persian Empires, the British Empire, the Sikh Empire, the Soviet Union, and most recently a coalition force of NATO troops, the majority from the United States, which entered the country in the first-ever invocation of NATO's Article 5 "an attack on one is an attack on all" following the September 11 attacks in the United States.
From Wikipedia
I don't know that they're completely wrong.
The Taliban offered to surrender back at the start, but we didn't accept for various reasons, some good and some bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/...t-rejects-offer-taliban-for-negotiations.html
I expect they did so in part to retain power.
Well, I rather suspect that the fact that a significant percentage of the Afghan population blames the United States of America for the conditions in Afghanistan is rather "breaking news" to a lot of people.
Those would be the people who think that "Such ingratitude!!! Don't those people realize that America liberated them? Not only that, but they aren't paying their own share of the cost of defending themselves!!! Why, if it hadn't been for the fact that the US drove the invaders out of Afghanistan the Afghans would all be speaking Dari and Pashto instead of their native language - Afghanistanish." is NOT both ignorant and sarcastic (both deliberate).
"Better" in a tribal society doesn't mean exactly the same thing that it means in the US.
"Better" in many societies simply means "There are fewer people taking what is mine and who will kill me if I resist.".
BTW, 80 out of 249 is ~32.13% while 84 out of 435 is ~19.31%.
If Afghanistan is ungovernable in its current state maybe it should be divided into countries
From Associated Press
After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban have retaken half the country, security is worse than it’s ever been, and many Afghans place the blame squarely on the Americans.
The United States has lost more than 2,400 soldiers in its longest war, and has spent more than $900 billion on everything from military operations to the construction of roads, bridges and power plants. Three U.S. presidents have pledged to bring peace to Afghanistan, either by adding or withdrawing troops, by engaging the Taliban or shunning them. Last year, the U.S. dropped the “mother of all bombs” on a cave complex.
None of it has worked. After years of frustration, Afghanistan is rife with conspiracy theories, including the idea that Americans didn’t stumble into a forever war, but planned one all along.
Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, a member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, wonders how U.S. and NATO forces — which at their peak numbered 150,000 and fought alongside hundreds of thousands of Afghan troops, were unable to vanquish tens of thousands of Taliban.
“Either they did not want to or they could not do it,” he said. He now suspects the U.S. and its ally Pakistan deliberately sowed chaos in Afghanistan to justify the lingering presence of foreign forces — now numbering around 15,000 — in order to use the country as a listening post to monitor Iran, Russia and China.
COMMENT:-
Such ingratitude!!! Don't those people realize that America liberated them? Not only that, but they aren't paying their own share of the cost of defending themselves!!! Why, if it hadn't been for the fact that the US drove the invaders out of Afghanistan the Afghans would all be speaking Dari and Pashto instead of their native language - Afghanistanish.
On the other hand, isn't it nice to see that there are "Conspiracy Theory Nuts" in other countries too.
I don't know that they're completely wrong.
The Taliban offered to surrender bin Laden to us back at the start, but we didn't accept for various reasons, some good and some bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/...t-rejects-offer-taliban-for-negotiations.html
I expect they did so in part to retain power.
If Afghanistan is ungovernable in its current state maybe it should be divided into countries
Sure... those guys have been fighting continuously for two thousands years but they blame us... :lol:
YEAH! Blame the USA.
USA SUX!
**** those guys...
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