KABUL BLASTS AND THE AFGHAN DANGER
are quite terrific and menacing, not just to Afghanistan but to the entire world. Truly as [the previous, 45th] President Trump recently remarked, “Never in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as the Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. ... Nobody ever thought such stupidity, as this feeble-brained withdrawal, was possible!” This despite the American troop withdrawal being decided in February 2020 itself by President Trump through two Doha agreements (one with the Taliban and the other with the then Afghan Government). But the withdrawal, which could have been more orderly under a Trump regime, has turned into a very disorderly mess under Biden’s Administration. In the last editorial itself we have commented how dangerous the bedlam in Afghanistan – the ultimate result of the unwarranted invasion and oppression of that country by the U.S. imperialists – was, and how sickening the hasty and humiliating flight of American forces without any concern towards the horrible consequences to the anti/non-Taliban people/forces is. In a way, all this tarnished the reputation of America as a superpower and made it a virtual laughingstock with this joke said to be going viral on the Chinese Social media – “If you ever feel useless … Just remember that the United States took four presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and 20 years … TO REPLACE TALIBAN WITH TALIBAN!” So not irrational when about 200 people were killed in the recent ISIS-K terrorists’ conducted suicide bombing in Kabul in which 13 American soldiers were martyred, an angry Kathy McCollum, mother of a deceased soldier, Rylee McCollum, exploded in a radio talk which now goes viral on the net: “My son was one of the marines that died yesterday,” “Twenty years and 6-months-old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife to watch the birth of his son, and that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap [Biden] just sent my son to die.” She sobbingly said, “I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son. With a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn't even know he's in the White House, who still thinks he's a senator.” May be the Taliban also learnt some lessons, and would like to govern better now? But then, as already made clear in our last editorial, it is possible only by a real change of heart with a secular outlook and democratic policies/measures. Otherwise, as in the past, now also, the Taliban will stand as a great danger to the peace and progress of humanity in general and of us Indians in particular. §§§
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