Many world powers helped the Taliban

If you think that 4 years of the disastrously-corrupt, vindictively-incompetent term of the twice-impeached Trump hasn’t taken a huge toll across our globe, you’re sadly WRONG! Terrorism-efforts have metastasized worldwide. Look at our own country. And some of the loudest voices of criticism regarding President Biden are the voices against bringing Afghan-evacuees to America. We’ve been hearing how Trump & immigrant-hater Stephen Miller hollowed-out the SIV Afghan-refugee program, creating a backlog of some 18,000 interpreters & other allied-Afghans, who qualified for immigrant-status. Blame the evil-doers! Do you want to know more truth on the entire subject? Read Craig Whitlock’s new book: “THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS, the secret history of the war”. Many world-power, monied-interests were behind helping the Taliban, and several banks laundered billions of dollars during this 2 decade scheme. Afghanistan was referred to as “the forgotten war”, but suddenly with TV images of thousands of Afghan people trying to flee, people seem to have awakened & now care about their plight. Since president Ghani fled, news reports stated that the corrupt government had stolen the salaries of the Afghan fighters, which were paid by the U.S. The disheartened-fighters, out of food, water & ammunition, with no government left in place, returned to their families & villages, as the Taliban surged across Afghanistan.

Some say that Biden didn’t have to honor the May 2021 deadline to withdraw, but the Taliban want US out, and Biden would have had to deploy thousands more U.S. forces to stay; and Biden has long been against U.S. troops continuing the fight in Afghanistan. Too much Blood & Treasure has been spent there already. The 2nd best time to leave is NOW! The Biden administration had to extend the May deadline in order to process Special Immigrant Visas for qualifying Afghans. Since Afghanistan fell, as of 8/23/21, our Pentagon has evacuated over 40,000 Afghans out of Kabul, but the Taliban is demanding WE LEAVE NOW! This evacuation process has been dangerous for all involved. Americans were advised, by our government, to leave months ago. It’s unrealistic to think that we can free all Afghans that want to leave their country. That can’t happen. War is death, bloodshed, suffering & strife, it’s heartbreaking! Our mission in 2001 was to bring vengeance to Al Qaeda & death to Bin Laden; then our mission morphed into bringing democracy to Afghanistan. We can barely maintain democracy in America; let’s focus on passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to strengthen democracy in America & strengthen our own infrastructure.

Trish Forsyth Voss