International conflict specialist Dr. Greg Mills, who is Director of the Brenthurst Foundation, is more hopeful for Afghanistan’s long-term future. In a recent op-ed, Mills lists five primary reasons why the West failed to help Afghanistan right the ship of state the Taliban had torpedoed just five years prior to Bin Laden’s daring raid – and ways Afghans can achieve victory.
Mills, a South African who spent years in Kabul as an advisor to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), points the finger at the West’s failure to accept – from the outset – that a successful intervention in Afghanistan would require a broader based strategy than merely dislodging the Taliban.
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Daily Times
May 25, 2021
A quiet storm is brewing in our front yard and it is one that will impact the future configuration of the entire region. The Americans are committed to leaving Afghanistan by September 11, some twenty years after their blustering re-entry to the region. They will leave behind a power vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum of any kind. The question on everyone’s lips is, who will step in and fill the void? There are just two contenders: the Afghan government and the home-grown Taliban.
An Afghanistan in turmoil does not suit the region’s neighbours. The Afghans themselves have suffered immensely during the past four decades. This began with the Saur Revolution in April 1978 that saw the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) stage a pro-communist coup and assassinate President Mohammed Daoud Khan and overthrow his government. Then came the decade-long bloody Soviet occupation, whose retreat was followed by another 10 years of infighting and civil