The end of the “nation-building” project and the lessons that America must learn.
To end the country’s longest war, US President Joe Biden marked 17 dark and daunting days for the Americans and the world, and a deadly and painful end for the Afghan people, effectively ending the failed “nation-building” project. Announce America.
Announcing the end of US troop presence in Afghanistan on August 30, Biden said US forces had conducted “the largest air withdrawal operation in US history” in the past 17 days, with more than 120,000 US citizens, Afghan nationals and Afghan allies. They pulled themselves out.
Responding to his critics of the decision, he said that according to all US field commanders, ending the military presence in Afghanistan is the best possible way to protect the lives of US troops and ensure the safe exit of civilians from the country in the coming weeks and months.
Different foreign policy in the world after 9/11
In his first speech since the end of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US president claimed that Washington’s mission was to fight terrorism, not to build a government in Afghanistan, but international analysts see his remarks as the end of the US “nation-building” project.
Biden’s speech was in defense of his decision, trying to convince the American people that his choice to leave Afghanistan was the result of the actions of his predecessor Donald Trump and his agreement with the Taliban, and that the United States no longer had any interest in Afghanistan.
According to analysts and the American media, Biden actually provided an overview of the different US foreign policies in the world after 9/11, which avoids ground wars by sending troops, but a strategy that is more in line with economic competition and cyber security.
“The world is changing,” Biden said. “China and Russia wish we were in Afghanistan for another 10 years.”
Biden called the current era a new era in US power, in which Washington will no longer seek to reshape its rivals in the way that three previous presidents in Afghanistan and Iraq did.
The damage to the failed nation-building project for the United States
The United States has lost nearly 2,500 troops in its longest war, but what has posed a major challenge to the Biden administration is the killing of 13 young American soldiers in an ISIL suicide attack outside Kabul airport. They were babies during the 9/11 attacks.
In his first speech since withdrawing his troops from Afghanistan, Biden acknowledged that the war had cost the United States $ 300 million a day for two decades, and that Washington had two options: withdraw or escalate the military conflict.
He also acknowledged that soldiers with disabilities commit suicide daily in the United States.
US military equipment in the hands of the Taliban
Other US losses in the 20-year war include the Taliban’s seizure of military equipment.
International media reported that the Taliban had recently published photos of US military equipment being transferred to the Taliban at military bases built by the US-led military coalition.
Over the years, 800,000 Americans have been sent to Afghanistan to fight al-Qaeda and carry out ambitious nation-building operations, Reuters reported.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, up to 20 percent of war invalids in Afghanistan and Iraq have symptoms of PTSD, which can include irritability or outbursts of anger.
The Department of Defense says Washington has spent more than $ 84 billion over two decades equipping and training Afghan National Security Forces.
The Pentagon spokesman claimed that while much of the weapons of the Afghan security and defense forces were probably in the hands of the Taliban, it should be noted that This equipment was used to fight low-level insurgency.
According to the report, Taliban leaders have ordered their forces to recruit disbanded Afghan Air Force pilots who have received costly training from the United States and its allies to fly fighter jets and advanced helicopters.
The U.S. Air Force said on June 30 that the Afghan Air Force had 167 aircraft, including 108 helicopters and 59 military aircraft.
