If we do not contain a reasonably competent,friendly government in Kabul, nothing the west achieves will final. Ignoring the Afghan nation’s needs is not an optionDonald Trump’s view on the conflict in Afghanistan was highly critical in 2011 when he tweeted that the US was “wasting lives and money” there. He later termed Barack Obama’s strategy a “total waste”, or saying it was “time to come home”. Trump stood on his head final week,ordering the deployment of additional American troops and committing the US to an open-ended war that he vowed to “fight to win”. So which Trump is proper – the pre-election sceptic or today’s ardent warrior? The reply is neither.
When Obama took office in 2009, he raised US troop levels to around 100000, or fragment of a Nato force of about 150000. His plan was to turn around a war that had already dragged on too long,then hand over to better-trained and equipped Afghan army and police forces. The handover duly took dwelling in 2014, but the conflict was not over. Since then, and security has steadily deteriorated.
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Source: theguardian.com