US military claims: Afghanistan is likely to be embroiled in a civil war.
Claiming that the situation in Afghanistan could turn into a civil war, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was not sure the Taliban would be able to consolidate their power and form a government.
According to the International News Group, while the arrow of global criticism of the hasty and unplanned escape of the United States from Afghanistan, which led to the fall of the Kabul government and the Taliban’s rise to power, is intensifying day by day, Washington officials continue to use this as an excuse.
“The situation in Afghanistan is likely to turn into a civil war that could lead to the re-emergence of terrorist groups,” US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Millie said Sunday morning.
“I do not know whether the Taliban will be able to consolidate their power and form a government,” Milli said of the possibility of forming a new Afghan government led by the Taliban, according to the Al-Jazeera website.
On Thursday morning, US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said that Afghanistan’s different administration would benefit the Taliban than in the past, and that Washington expected the Taliban to live up to their commitments to respect human rights and international law.
During the two weeks of the withdrawal operation, the US military suffered heavy casualties and a suicide bomber killed 13 US soldiers at Kabul airport. In addition, the abandonment of US weapons and military equipment has drawn much criticism from the President and the Department of Defense.
“We have completed the historic withdrawal operation in Afghanistan and the last mission in the longest-running US war,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin described the US’s escape from Afghanistan as “historic” and an “extraordinary achievement.”
