Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and silence on questions.
After 20 years of military intervention in Afghanistan and a few days after Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Washington, the United States evacuated Bagram Air Base to mark the 255th anniversary of its independence from the longest and most costly war Acknowledging that he could not win the field, he left.
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, when Washington entered the air base 20 km north of Kabul with NATO troops on October 7 of that year, it was faced with a dilapidated base that turned it into a city with facilities used by thousands of Americans and of course a large prisoner. Turned for his detainees.
The United States made Bagram part of its territory, so much so that whenever US presidents wanted to, they would travel to the base without coordination with Afghan officials and even invite them to meet with Afghan officials.
The Americans, who invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to fight the Taliban, agreed with the group 19 years later, in 2020, to facilitate the withdrawal of their troops and pave the way for peace between them and the Kabul government.
The agreement was reached with former Taliban President Donald Trump under the Taliban in February 2020, which incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden announced in April 2021.
Biden has in fact taken responsibility for the implementation of his Republican predecessor program, announcing that his country will withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
“While Biden’s team emphasizes the correctness of the president’s decision to withdraw all US troops, the dire consequences of this withdrawal are becoming clearer,” CNN wrote in another analysis. US intelligence services, military commanders and members of Congress warn that the Afghan government will not be able to stand up to the Taliban without the backing of US military power. The Taliban are rapidly seizing cities in northern Afghanistan. US military commanders predict that the US will move to civil war after the withdrawal of US troops.
However, the New York Times quoted US government sources as saying that the United States was ready to deploy thousands of Afghans who had worked with the US military in other countries to protect them from possible Taliban retaliation after the withdrawal of US troops. But while Biden has said that his Afghan counterparts will not be left in the lurch, US officials still do not guarantee that they will be able to obtain US visas.
These are just a few of the questions asked by the Biden’s government about the war, which is described as even more humiliating than the Vietnam War.
