Deadline for all foreign troops to get out of Afghanistan
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
The UK was one of the first countries that joined the 2001 US military invasion of Afghanistan. Over 20 years, it threw billions of dollars in tax-payer money into the illegal war and saw hundreds of its troops coming home in flag-draped coffins. While the British government tries to sell the gains from the war, anti-war activists are calling it a defeat 20 years in the making.
And end to a devastating war that took tens of thousands of lives, destroyed livelihoods and left behind a country reeling. Back in charge, the Taliban rejoiced with gunfire as the last of US troops took to the skies. European ally, UK completed its withdrawal two days earlier. Or did it?
The UK lost more than 450 troops in Afghanistan, and spent nearly 20 billion pounds in British tax-payer money on it. The stated goal of the war was to root out terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Twenty years on, and by Washington’s own admission, there are some 2,000 Daesh terrorists operating in Afghanistan.
As UK government officials tell the British public about the gains of the devastating war in Afghanistan, and airlift cats and dogs instead of humans out of Afghanistan, calls for an inquiry into the outcome of the war are louder.
To those who opposed the war before it even happened, what we saw in Afghanistan in the recent weeks was a defeat for western government’s policy of military intervention dressed up as humanitarianism.
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