The Taliban's military victory is complete with the collapse of the Afghan government forces in the absence of American support. What happened can only be described as a resounding defeat for the United States, which finds itself after nearly two decades of leaving the country, and has incurred heavy losses in it amounting to more than 2,300 dead and about 20,660 wounded among its soldiers, with a total military expenditure of nearly $778 billion until September 2019, in addition to To the failures of US government agencies supervising reconstruction projects and securing the rear base in Pakistan.
Washington has failed in Afghanistan, and ended up searching for a shameful escape, while the darkness of extremism will return to obliterate all the points of light that tried to resist for a better life in a country in which the West and its allies had a prominent role in bringing it to what it is today, when the idea of Jihad in the name of religion to stir tribal and ethnic strife in the battle to confront the Soviet Union before its collapse, by forming the image of terrorism as it later spread and expanded into a transnational and continental phenomenon targeting even the countries that were the cause of its spread.
The beginning of the tragedy was the coup of 1973, when Sardar Muhammad Daoud Khan, an ally of the Soviets, overthrew the Afghan monarchy and began to establish progressive policies, especially in the field of defending women's freedom, and launching two five-year development plans that increased the size of the country's workforce by 50 percent, but his suppression of the opposition compared to His favoritism for his relatives ended his rule and his life with assassination in 1978 when the communists of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan revolted against him, and he deliberated on the rule of the country, Abdel Qader Dakrual, then Nour Muhammad Turki, then Hafeezullah Amin, then Babrak Karmel, then Muhammad Najibullah, who was suspended on the 28th of September 1996 in one of the public squares in the middle of the city. Kabul, where he was hanged, and is said to have been shot by the Taliban, and his private secretary and bodyguards were executed the next day.
Washington failed in Afghanistan, and ended up searching for a shameful escape, while the darkness of extremism would return to obliterate all the points of light that tried to resist for a better life.
The Soviet intervention in late December 1979 to shape the features of the regime loyal to it was sufficient for the United States to move with full force by financing the local rebels, and to invite its allies to participate in turning the rebellion into a war of liberation raising slogans of jihad. Since the beginning of the seventies, Washington has issued instructions to Islamic countries, especially Arab Including, to launch the project of advocacy and jihad against communist and nationalist currents and the transformation of religion into an advanced tool in the cold war against the socialist camp.
After the withdrawal of the Soviets in 1989, the Mujahideen, who had gained strength and money, organized into different political parties and found great support from different countries. Intelligence, especially the Western ones, but no one cared about the fate of Afghanistan itself, or what new woes awaited its people.
The state of chaos allowed the Taliban, which officially declared itself in 1994, to seize power in Kabul, and to control the entire country in 1998, and gave it the opportunity to rule according to interpretations of religion consistent with ethnic and tribal fanaticism, and not caring about the international community and human rights. The movement was a cultural state A locality that dressed in the guise of Islam, and moved under the shadows of guns to impose its societal pattern on all Afghans, regardless of their races, sects, sects and regions, and turned into a source of inspiration for thousands of young people who rebelled against the era, and who wished to restore history with a pure Salafist vision that was imbued with the idea of jihad to complete the image of the awakening that had gone out of control. Its original supporters turned into the phenomenon of global jihad, or what has become known as international terrorism.
Afghanistan was the starting point for the founding of Al-Qaeda by Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden in 1988 as an extension of the Service Bureau in Peshawar, which was established four years ago and was sponsored by Washington, and opened the doors for recruiting volunteers even on American soil. In 1990, the FBI discovered when it raided a headquarters New Jersey has plenty of evidence of terrorist plots, including a plot to blow up New York City's skyscrapers that was actually carried out in September 2001.
It is difficult to count the American mistakes in Afghanistan
It is difficult to count the American mistakes in Afghanistan
In 1996, al-Qaeda declared jihad to expel foreign forces and interests from Islamic lands. Bin Laden issued a fatwa that was considered a general alarm for war against the United States of America and its allies, and began to focus al-Qaeda's resources to attack the United States and its interests. On June 25, 1996, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia were bombed, killing 19 American soldiers. On February 23, 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, along with three other Islamic leaders participated in signing and issuing a fatwa under the name of the International Islamic Front to Fight Jews and Crusaders.
Afghanistan had turned into a capital of international terrorism led by a regime that was not recognized by most countries, and the strikes of al-Qaeda had spread to many regions of the world, and had become a serious threat to the interests of the United States, especially in the Middle East, West and North Africa, and within the American continent itself. It is clear that economic sanctions do not intimidate the Taliban regime, and that the ideology of al-Qaeda began to spread on a large scale, and when the New York bombings, which represented a stab at the core of American pride, were carried out, Washington decided a war that would last 20 years.
The United States used all its military, security, financial, political, media, and even cinematic and artistic capabilities in its battle in Afghanistan, to finally have to leave, leaving the Taliban group with all the burdens it carried, as if confirming by this that military force may bring down a regime, but it does not end an idea on which it was based, and that destruction is possible but rebuilding. Real construction remains a difficult matter, perhaps impossible, and that reshaping the cultures of peoples according to Western will is not possible unless it is based on a desire from within the targeted peoples and communities. They are advancing to regain control of the entire country.
It will be difficult to enumerate the loopholes and mistakes that accompanied the American presence in Afghanistan, but it is certain that the illusion of Western democracy was not in harmony with the nature of Afghan society, and the building of state agencies during the past years was neither literal nor serious, but rather a field for practicing corruption with the tools of Mr. White
outside his country. The real change that is related to education, culture, media and building a democratic mind has not been achieved, and the focus on the capital, Kabul, remains the epitome of failure in front of which all illusions collapsed.The United States has not only been defeated as a military power in Afghanistan, but also as a symbol of the civilization of the free world and the culture of democracy, pluralism and human rights, and it will have to remember the Afghan lesson whenever its ambitions lead it to even think of a new adventure outside its borders.
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