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Photo: U.S. jet at Bagram airbase prior to last week’s withdrawal. Credit National Archives
The Pentagon’s Central Command responsible for U.S. forces in the Middle East announced yesterday that 90 percent of its soldiers and support personnel have left Afghanistan. This retreat is occurring against the backdrop of intensifying offensives by the Taliban across the north of Afghanistan, a region which has long been known as a stronghold of forces aligned with the United States. The Taliban currently control or contest approximately three quarters of the country’s 421 districts.
The U.S. military’s hasty retreat from the notorious Bagram airbase July 2 served as yet another indication that the Afghan government, installed and propped up by the United States over the course of two decades of occupation, is teetering on the edge of collapse. U.S. forces left under the cover of night without bothering to communicate their departure t