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As the departure of American forces reaches its end , all the enteral secrets of the longest war are dripping slowly, but surely , like a leaky faucet.
There is a new book detailing how the Bush administration planed to overthrow the Taliban in the summer of 2001. A meeting at the white house in August 2001 was finalised to demand the Taliban to hand over Osama Bin Ladan and Al-Qaeda leaders or face regime change. Al this is taking place before 911.
The northern alliance led by the legendary Mujahedeen fighter Ahmed Shah Mascuud was tasked to weaken and eventually affect the regime change desired by Washington and even India. Unfortunately, September 10 2011, one day before the infamous 911, the Taliban had assassinated Mascuud in Afghanistan. Those Northern alliance forces eventually helped America to get rid of the Taliban twenty years ago, yet they are back again.
American investigators sent by the Trump administration had found out how the military leadership was lying about the success of the operations for the last 10 years.
Could you imagine the Americans had spent $9.5 billion just to eradicate the opium trade which just kept growing even more. They also spend $50 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan with tonnes of over a trillion dollars. Most of that money was laundered through the UAE banks where no questions are asked.
They hired warlords and criminals to fight the Taliban with almost zero success. As we speak the Taliban control more than hundred districts and might even take over the country.
A law enforcement mission that could have targeted few individuals became a 20 year war. Americans don't read history, no wonder Afghanistan is called the grave yard of empires since the nineteenth century.
Americans are leaving the mess to Turkey and Pakistan to maintain the airport and convince the Taliban to make a deal. Going to the dust pins of history will be the fake American claim of helping girls go to school in Taliban controlled nation. Furthermore, the Americans couldn't even find another country to host their military. All the central Asian nations and Pakistan refused to allow any American bases in their country.
For 30 years they have been chasing Arabs and Muslims in the middle east and Africa with almost disastrous results. In the meantime, the Chinese took advantage of the neoconservative led America that was led by hubris and regime change.
The Muslim nations of the world could have helped America contain the Chinese, yet they choose to either destroy or push those countries to China.
Despite all that , the Americans had one more chance to right the wrongs by helping these Muslim nations depose their despots like Sisi of Egypt and gain friends. Sooner or later these nations will get rid of their dictators and will remember who denied them freedom and dignity. Just look at Pakistan, a reliable alliance of Washington for 50 years, then ditched and isolated because the Neoconservatives wanted to destabilise, and eventually unleashed India to weaken and threaten them.
By destroying these nations, America was losing both power, prestige, people and treasure slowly. The second world war had eliminated the British empire, and European colonial ambitions.