The Fall of Kabul: US Futile Mission

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Finally, the Talibans overran the Afghan capital of Kabul and took over the  presidential palace as the President, Ashraf Gani flees from the country. It is indeed shocking the situation that the Middle East country of Afghanistan has found itself. Seeped in a far-stretched war with the militant group, Taliban, the country has finally become subdued by one of the notorious terrorist islamist organizations.


This is coming just on the heels of the withdrawal of the United State troops just some weeks ago after engaging in more than a 20-year engagement- the longest military mission of the US anywhere! With hard prices, in thousands of servicemen and billions of dollars paid, the United States thought it was time to quit and save itself.


The consequence of the fall of Kabul to the rampaging terrorist organization brings to the fore some really critical questions. These are issues to be looked at separately from the hard point, which is the reputation of the United States in the face of what has now clearly become a futile war commitment- looking at how much it spent in both human and material resources, just to achieve nothing!


The first bothers on what would be the fate of the many hapless Afghan citizens, who have been consistently riddled by the trauma of this endless war that they have faced. In the desire to restore an Islamic state in Afghanistan, how are the rights and privileges of Afghanis going to be guaranteed under the envisaged Taliban government?


The second angle to be looked into as a fallout of this shameful overrun of the government of Ashraf Ghani is the very place it places the Joe Biden's administration. As much as it was under the last administration of Donald Trump that the process of ending the US mission commenced, was President Biden consciously apt in finalizing the eventual withdrawal of the United States troops from the troubled Afghanistan considering the rising and overwhelming threat from the Talibans? Could it not be a major scar of this government?


What is indeed the most pressing concern about this issue is the global reflection of what would be the impact of this overrun of a government by a militant and terrorist organization. What is the fate of countries overburdened by the specs of terrorism, whose  bludgeoning nemesis could be further emboldened by this feat by the Taliban in Afghanistan?


It is therefore a thing of universal concern the reality playing out in Afghanistan currently, where the Afghan forces and indeed the government caved in and are now at the mercy of a terror warforce.

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