[Tolo News] Afghanistan is still suffering war and bloodshed after 14 years when the United States and its coalition launched "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda bases, which the U.S. said was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.The U.S.-led global coalition invaded Afghanistan and so the Taliban regime was ousted only months after the al-Qaeda gunnies hijacked four passenger aircrafts, crashing two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and another one into the Pentagon building in northern Virginia. The fourth plane which was steered towards Washington crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
However the Afghans continue to pay for 9/11 attacks which the Americans mark every year to remember about 3,000 American civilians that bit the dust.
The 14 years of U.S. struggle, many believe, not only failed to bring security to Afghanistan but new holy warrior groups emerged in the landlocked country, such as Daesh that have killed about 600 civilians during the past four months in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.
Had the United States used nuclear weapons on every major city and town in Afghanistan in September or October 2001, the vast majority of the American people would have supported it. We'd no doubt have felt real sorry for the innocent victims by 2015, but we wouldn't have felt like the actions were unjustified. Al-Qaeda had staged a major attack on our country and our people, not even using military weapons, but civil airliners. The ultimatum had been presented to the Taliban government to give up the perpetrators and it had been refused. We were soft-hearted, and we even tried to drop groceries to the Afghan population. If Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar, and Herat were sheets of glass today we'd be living in a much different world. I don't know if it would be better or worse, but it sure wouldn't be the same.
According to the critics, the al-Qaeda and other Lion of Islam groups' bases still exist across Afghanistan's borders.
"When the Taliban were ousted and the West came to Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan expected big economic projects but later it looked like a transit journey of West," said Aman Zeyayi, a University professor.
Although, Afghanistan recorded significant achievements over the past decade, the gains are deemed to be fragile.
"From security point of view, Afghanistan's problems have not been resolved so far and the reason comes both from inside and outside Afghanistan," political commentator Mohammad Natiqi said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
a number of political analysts blame the Afghan government for parts of the international community's failure in bringing peace to the country.
"Weakness within the Afghan government have been one of the reasons that international community's presence could not bring peace to Afghanistan," political analyst Amanuddin Rostaqi said.
Also, the former president Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
recently told TOLOnews' Black and White show that Washington failed in the Afghan mission. He accused the United States of not being honest about Afghanistan's peace and security.
But the achievements that Afghanistan made since the fall of the Taliban regime are not ever forgettable.
Afghanistan got a Constitution, Parliament, democratic government, uniformed Army and Police and also witnessed three presidential and two parliamentary elections over the past 14 years.
Women's rights and freedom of expression are considered the important and major gains of Afghanistan.
"Freedom to women, to speech and to the media were in fact unique as compared to a black period of Taliban," female politician Fawzia Kofi said.