Understanding the Stituation in Afganistan
Understanding the Situation in Afghanistan by Jonathan Berry August 19, 2021 The situation in Afghanistan is a mess. There is no getting around it. However, to solely place the blame on President Biden is folly, as multiple people contributed to the rapid collapse the the democratic government and the Afghan Armed Forces during the Taliban's rapid advance. To begin with, we need to look at how all this began. For that we need to go back twenty years to September 11, 2001 when 19 members of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda hijacked four jet airplanes and used them in terrorist attacks which saw the Twin Towers of of the World Trade Center be destroyed and wing of the Pentagon damaged. The American people wanted revenge and Congress and President Bush obliged it. Al-Qaeda and their leader Osama Bin Laden where being sheltered by the Taliban in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, who ruled Afghanistan at the time. The United States would invade Afghanistan and ended up over...