“O analiză a situației fără a menționa câmpurile de maci este rizibilă. 90 % din heroina mondială este produsă în Afganistan. 95% din heroina care ajunge în Europa provine de aici.” https://www.cristoiublog.ro/de-veghe-in-lanul-de-maci-bani-arme-multinationale-totul-construit-pe-imense-suferinte/
“Jack Cummings, a veteran who lost both his legs in 2010 in Afghanistan, tweeted: “Was it worth it, probably not. Did I lose my legs for nothing, looks like it. Did my mates die in vain. Yep.”” https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15878511/veterans-slam-afghanistan-withdrawal/
"American
troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that
Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497
“Să ne oprim
la Afganistan. Este grăitor că acolo, de pildă, s-a ajuns ca funcționarul să
elibereze certificate de deces abia după ce primește bacșiș. Fratele
președintelui țării vindea bunuri și servicii ale statului și se îmbogățea.” https://gandeste.org/analize-si-opinii/andrei-marga-democratizarea-incercata-in-afganistan-se-incheie-deocamdata-cu-un-deznodamant-ce-uimeste/121587/
“Whatever
the historic truth decades from now, the U.S. will be widely perceived by the
world today as having lost what George W. Bush dubbed the “war on
terror”—despite having mobilized nato for…”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/does-the-great-retreat-from-afghanistan-mark-the-end-of-the-american-era
“The country
has salami-sliced itself into warring racial, gender and sexual groups, and
partisan politics has made America as fissiparous as it has been at any time
since 1865.” https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/shameful-afghanistan-retreat-has-shaken-my-faith-in-america-20210819-p58k2h
“What the
public does care about, however, is using Afghanistan as raw material for cheap
patriotism and partisan attacks…” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/afghanistan-your-fault/619769/
“REP.
CHENEY: So, we had — it did not happen, right. So, we had delegitimatized the
Afghan government, cut them out, negotiated with the Taliban, a terrorist
organization, signed an agreement with them.”
https://cheney.house.gov/2021/08/16/cheney-were-watching-what-it-looks-like-when-america-adopts-a-policy-of-retreat/
“A makeshift
barricade is all that separates two armies who have fought for 20 years.
The Taliban
are just one metre away from the British soldiers - it's a picture I never thought
I would see.” https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-desperate-women-throw-babies-over-razor-wire-at-compound-asking-british-soldiers-to-take-them-12384646
“După eşecul
„democratizării şi modernizării” Irakului, colapsul regimului-marionetă
pro-american de la Kabul arată că intervenţionismul militar în numele
construirii unei „democraţii globale” este doar o costisitoare fantezie
ideologică de factură neo-liberală.” https://adevarul.ro/international/in-lume/retragerea-nato-afganistan-reprezinta-sfarsitul-simbolic-unipolarismului-1_611e1f065163ec42714f8e37/index.html
“In a July
29 news conference, Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesman Wu Qian
called the U.S. a world-renowned "blame-shifter."” https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/US-retreat-from-Afghanistan-threatens-China-and-Russia
“From a
strategic point of view, Pakistan would prefer the Taliban being accommodated
in power through negotiations and a peaceful settlement, which would also allow
Rawalpindi to stabilise its conflict-ridden western border.” https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/what-lies-ahead-for-afghanistan-after-us-exit/article35125897.ece
“For many
U.K. lawmakers, Britain’s withdrawal represents a huge failure for the
Afghanistan mission, which saw 457 British troops die in the effort to
stabilize the nation.” https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/18/critics-slam-uks-johnson-over-afghanistan-retreat/
“When the
government was in power, no robbery was investigated. Now after we came to
power, people can leave their doors open.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/after-the-retreat-what-now-for-afghanistan
“History
will soon find that there is plenty of blame to go around for our defeat in the
twenty-year Afghanistan War. Presidents, vice presidents, cabinet members, and
White House advisors, as well as the generals who ran the war, all must share
it.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/13/whos-to-blame-for-americas-defeat-in-afghanistan/
“Given the
current dicey relationship between the United States and Russia and between the
United States and China, it is hard to imagine formation of a broad based
coalition of superpowers against the Taliban.”
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/views/opinions/americas-precipitous-retreat-from-afghanistan-1627655955
'America's
in crisis. Afghanistan's in chaos. Why's Joe Biden on vacation?' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9896001/Republicans-claim-Joe-Biden-taking-vacation-Camp-David-chaos-unfolds-Afghanistan.html
“Biden laid
part of the blame for Afghanistan’s collapse on the Trump administration,
saying he had inherited a situation where troops had been drawn down to just
2,500.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/15/biden-white-house-afghanistan-drawdown-505018
“… CIA,
Military, DIA reaped the billions of dollars in heroin profits largely as
individuals. Their sorrow is that the
goose that laid the golden eggs died.
Our military is totally corrupt.”
https://operationdisclosureofficial.com/2021/08/17/the-afghanistan-us-retreat/
“Asked to
explain what a "peaceful transfer of power" means in practice, he
said: "It means that the city and the power should be handed over to the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and then, in future…” https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/15/after-20-years-lies-and-war-us-retreat-underway-taliban-retake-control-afghanistan
“On the 20th
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this September, a Taliban flag will fly over
Afghanistan.” https://time.com/6090523/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-taliban/
“One review
found that 30 percent of American aid was lost to “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Foreign assistance can backfire by creating patronage opportunities for corrupt
officials, dividing Afghan communities, and boosting the Taliban.” https://warontherocks.com/2021/06/the-future-of-afghanistan-hinges-on-american-dollars-not-troops/
“Should
American political leaders regard these wrongs as, in some fashion, their
responsibility?” https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-wont-be-able-to-shirk-moral-responsibility-in-leaving-afghanistan-164474
“The zealots
of the Taliban, who harboured Osama bin Laden and were overthrown by
American-backed forces after 9/11, have made a horrifying comeback.” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/10/americas-longest-war-is-ending-in-crushing-defeat
“Another
five years or another 20 years of American engagement in Afghanistan would not
have changed the outcome.” https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/16/afghanistan-u-s-waited-too-long-withdraw/8144646002/
“So, what’s
happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The
Afghan military collapsed sometimes without trying to fight.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/16/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis
“Sometimes
what matters in foreign policy is not what you can accomplish but what you can
avoid. Afghanistan was such a case.” https://www.cfr.org/article/americas-withdrawal-choice
“It’s all
about the image [and] . . . persuading our partners in Central Asia that only
Russia is capable of ensuring their security.”
https://www.ft.com/content/38c0dd0c-6f69-41bd-9866-fb77a94fb2cd
“US
President Biden, determined to end what he called ‘the forever war’, says
pullout to be complete by September 11.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/1/afghan-retreat-us-starts-withdrawing-from-its-longest-war
“Tony Blair
branded Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw “imbecilic”, while cabinet insiders
suggested…” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-blair-attacks-joe-bidens-imbecilic-afghanistan-retreat-as-kabul-chaos-deepens-jw782ghxr
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