The Future of Afghanistan and US Policy Lessons
Commentary
Soon Afghanistan will become a Taliban-run state. It will not be a bed of roses. There have already been executions of serving Afghan military personnel and the beginning of taking away the rights of women. It will get worse. But we need to ask the question: Why did we lose the fight?
The short answer to a hard question is that the United States (and the allies we dragged in) had no business in Afghanistan in the first place.
Afghanistan is of marginal strategic or geopolitical importance.
While Afghanistan harbored terrorists, so too does nearby Pakistan. But we are not fighting in Pakistan.