The article criticizes the West's policy in Afghanistan, highlighting the Taliban's regime of gender apartheid and the failure to achieve its objectives. It draws parallels with the situation in Syria, urging the West to learn from its mistakes.
In the three years since regaining power, the Taliban has instituted a regime of gender apartheid in Afghanistan. It is the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is forbidden to girls and women over the age of 12. Afghanistan is a disaster, and so is the West's policy toward it. We should learn from our mistakes, and not repeat them with the new government in Syria.Washington spent $2.3 trillion in Afghanistan. No less than 2,324 American military personnel, 3,917 U.S.
contractors and 1,144 allied troops paid the ultimate price to transform the country into a free and prosperous democracy. Some 70,000 of our Afghan allies did the same.The Taliban outlasted both the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan National Army. It is now the de facto government of Afghanistan. Whether the West likes it or not, a terrorist group we spent decades fighting against now controls the political and economic destiny of at least 43 million people.The West lacks the political will to remove the Taliban from power for a second time. But it can't engage with the de facto Afghan government, let alone influence or shape events on the ground, because the Taliban is still designated as a terrorist group. This political designation seems incompatible with the objectives we want to achieve in Afghanistan.Since the West relies on mediators like Qatar to communicate with the de facto Afghan government, our intelligence gathering capabilities and counter-terrorism operations have developed blind spots for Afghanistan-based terrorist groups such as Islamic State Khorasan Province. Yet wasn't our failure to monitor Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan one of the reasons we invaded that country in the first place?Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is also listed as a terrorist group. Though skepticism is warranted, HTS spent more than half a decade embracing pragmatis
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