An Ill-Advised Withdrawal
"A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened before September 11th."
"America's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out."
U.S. President Donald Trump
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There are two fronts. One existing in the Middle East and in South Asia where the likes of Islamic State, al-Qaeda, the Taliban (and of course in the Islamic Maghreb) alongside Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab in Africa, scourging their territories and dreaming of a world caliphate through violent conquest mirroring the origins of Islam, and the infiltration of Europe and North America, and in particular the United States of the front line of Islam's jihadi troops, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The United States authorities see no clear and present danger in alliances with a country like Qatar which funds terrorist groups like Hamas in concert with Iran funding Hezbollah, and nor do they recognize the ticking time bomb held in the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in all avenues of society and offering themselves as useful intermediaries between various arms of government and the vast and growing communities of U.S. based Muslims.
Ongoing talks in Doha, Qatar between representatives of the U.S. and the Taliban to hammer out an agreement where the Taliban will 'promise' that counterterrorism assurances will further persuade the U.S. to withdraw when in fact Islam provides for the kind of confidence-productive subterfuges the Taliban is engaging in to enable them to counter U.S. fears leading to withdrawal. That the U.S. sees nothing amiss in the Taliban refusing to directly confer with the Afghan government speaks to their willingness to accept any assurances however specious.
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| An Afghan boy looks on in a damaged house near the site of an attack in Kabul on July 29, a day after the deadly assault targeting a political campaign office. NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images |
All the while the State Department has been earnestly engaged in talks with the Taliban to reassure itself that all is well, and in the end an agreement will be reached satisfactory to both parties, heralding an American military departure, the Taliban has continued its daily lethal attacks against Afghan civilians, against American soldiers and against NATO allies. Suicide bombers have continued their business of bloody massacres country-wide.
Terrorism courtesy of the Taliban against the people of Afghanistan has never ceased and it never will cease. Their complicity with al-Qaeda continues unabated. And the growing presence of Islamic State terrorists in Afghanistan competing with al-Qaeda and the Taliban in atrocities against helpless Afghans is unabated. The morale of the Afghan national police and the Afghan military, never competent defenders of the country to begin with, even after years of NATO-invested training is simply no match for the pathological psychopathy of Islamist-riddled terrorist groups.
American troops in Afghanistan are now the sole reason why women and children are safe, can attend schools, obtain medical services, join the workforce as equals, can defend themselves from the human rights abuses of fundamentalist Islamists. Once they are withdrawn, Afghanistan will once again fall back into the abyss of Sharia law, the subjugation and humiliation of women, and the deprivation of Afghan children's hopeful futures.
Productive week in Washington. Briefed management on where we are and next steps. Back on the road again. First stop Doha where we will try and close on remaining issues. We’re ready. Let’s see if the Taliban are as well. https://www.state.gov/special-representative-for-afghanistan-reconciliation-zalmay-khalilzad-travels-to-qatar-and-afghanistan/ …
Labels: Afghanistan, Military, Taliban, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Friday, August 23, 2019
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