Thursday, September 1, 2022

Afghanistan


Take that, Joe! Taliban let off fireworks and fire their guns in the air to celebrate one-year anniversary since humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan... despite MILLIONS starving across the country

  • The country's new rulers - not formally recognized by any other nation - have reimposed their harsh version of Islamic law on the impoverished country 
  • But despite the restrictions, and a deepening humanitarian crisis, many Afghans say they are glad the foreign force that prompted the Taliban insurgency is gone 
  • The disastrous withdrawal began last year, ending America's longest war - a military intervention that began in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks 
  • Some 66,000 Afghan troops and 48,000 civilians were killed in the conflict
  • It was the deaths of US service members - 2,461 in total - that became too much for the American public to bear 

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