Uncle Sam

Over two decades time, the US spent about $2,313 billion (Watson Institute) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but left the country handing over the same to rogue elements that America ousted in 2021 with the excuse of ‘Americans were not in Afghanistan for nation building.’

Mr. Biden and his administration have taken the decision of the US Forces withdrawal to satisfy their domestic audience, who are in fact no less losers for their governments’ misadventures of building Taliban into a formidable force between 1979 to 1990s.