While the US admitted about 70,000 Afghans into the country on an emergency basis in 2021, the measure is temporary, and these people remain in legal limbo.
The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but “Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government” is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
Well, yeah. But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken. Plus, we’ve been there for too long and the government there didn’t have a clue in how to go about improving itself. And we needed to go so…what else could’ve been done?
Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would’ve been a good second step.
It was never going to be pretty, but it didn’t need to end as badly as it did.
The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but “Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government” is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
Well, yeah. But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken. Plus, we’ve been there for too long and the government there didn’t have a clue in how to go about improving itself. And we needed to go so…what else could’ve been done?
Everything in the Middle-East is a waste of time.
Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would’ve been a good second step.
It was never going to be pretty, but it didn’t need to end as badly as it did.