OPINION: Painful lessons from 20 years at war
Saboor Sakhizada and Fox News' Pete Hegseth discusses the 'troubling issues' that have emerged in Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrew all military presence in 2021, a year ago U.S. troops fled from Afghanistan amid botched planning and chaotic execution. Tens of thousands of Afghans who had loyally served America were abandoned. Thirty million Afghans who had tasted freedom were again oppressed by the medieval Taliban. to destroy the al Qaeda terrorist organization.
First, the White House was responsible for the critical decisions. President Bush initiated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then later decided to stay to build two democratic nations. He enormously expanded the war objectives without regard for the time required and the costs.With similar disregard of the costs for failure, Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden were determined to pull out.
Second, the military embraced the mission of nation-building in Afghanistan without the rigor that would have revealed the impossibility of the task. A comparative handful of American troops could not persuade millions of illiterate tribesmen to support a corrupt government in faraway Kabul.
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