With great anxiety, the global community is helplessly witnessing freehand killings of innocent civilians and occupying of lands by the extreme Taliban force in Afghanistan. The Taliban insurgents are reportedly proceeding towards Kabul, and have captured the third provincial capital of Kunduz on Sunday.
Earlier, they took control of Jawzjan province’s capital Sheberghan and Nimroz province’s capital Zaranj. That means Taliban has captured three provinces in three consecutive days. They are now looting innocent civilians storming their houses and business establishments.
After twenty years the mighty US army withdrew suddenly leaving the people helplessly to be butchered. The conclusion is unavoidable that the American war against Taliban made Taliban a stronger force than it was. The United States has to take the blame that its fight against extremist Taliban was pursued wrongfully and America has confidence about its ability to offer protection to any country against human rights violators. President Biden boldly announced his determination to be back as defender of American friends and values.
Recently, the American embassy in Kabul said: “We condemn the Taliban’s violent new offensive against Afghan cities.” But the significant matter is that under the veil of condemnation, the US is fueling the ongoing civil war encouraging another militia wing to get involved in the conflict. In this process, Abdul Rashid Dostum returned to Afghanistan recently from Turkey.
Dostum had led one of the largest militias in the north against the Taliban in the 1990s. He has already held a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace and agreed to stay beside Afghanistan.
Before the American invasion, it was the Soviet Union which invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. The Soviets had fought the so-called US-backed ‘mujahedeen’ for 10 years. The then US President Ronald Reagan termed the ‘mujahedeen’ freedom fighters considering them as a front-line force in one of the last Cold War battles.
Now after 20 years, the US is ending its occupation of Afghanistan. In the meantime, a lot has changed around the world. But the fate of Afghan people is yet not changed. Both the Soviet Union and the US have left the innocent Afghan people in deep miseries in the fruitless invasions for long three decades.
We see that Taliban’s skirmish in the present days has became much more aggressive following the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan under a peace deal signed between Washington and Taliban in February 2020. We doubt whether it is really a peace deal, or a deal with murderers to eliminate innocent civilians. Â
The US went into Afghanistan to pick up Bin Laden who was held responsible for the 9/11 attack on the US.
Bin Laden was not an Afghan but he stayed there. He successfully eluded the US search to apprehend him. But the US continued war against Taliban and started reforming the country democratically, especially tried to modernise women. All that was good.
What is not understandable is that how the US army after twenty years of fighting is now leaving in a rush accepting defeat to the Taliban group.
Now doubt is being expressed is about its determination to fight for democracy in distant countries. America is back must mean its readiness to help countries struggling to establish democracy.
