US intelligence has swept away every veil that the Biden presidency still raised in the face of the Afghan disaster: a confidential report – already drafted during the Trump era but kept in the drawer so as not to irritate the then tenant of the White House – has now come. to the light. The New York Times he writes that the details are still covered by secrecy, but that “senior officials” of the Administration have revealed the general meaning. And this is unambiguous: initiating the exodus of Western troops is equivalent to giving Afghanistan to the fundamentalists.
The reasons for the surprise blitz in Afghanistan by the head of the Pentagon
by our correspondent Federico Rampini
Already in the time of Obama, Joe Biden he had leaked his lack of enthusiasm for what others called the “export of democracy”. As head of state he does not seem to have changed his mind on military missions abroad: for now, in front of the many advisers and allies who pull him by the jacket urging an afterthought, he still seems perplexed. He limits himself to saying that the deadline of May 1st is not to be considered mandatory, but that “it would be strange” if American soldiers were still in the Asian country next year.
Taliban spokesman: “The withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan is the condition for dialogue”
by Pierluigi Bussi
Twenty years of intervention, thousands of fallen soldiers, tens of thousands of civilian victims, an income statement worth trillions, calculated in dollars: it would have been useless, if the heirs of the mullah Omar returned to the Kabul palace, wiping out the government of Ashraf Ghani. The Taliban have promised to leave no room for maneuver for organizations like Al Qaeda, but ties to the network founded by Osama Bin Laden they are always very tight. And if in Washington the greatest concern is over residual terrorist connections, in Kabul it is women, members of civil society, students who look to the future with fear.
Afghanistan, the Taliban celebrate in the base for which Italian soldiers died
by Gianluca Di Feo
The Taliban are threatening to resume attacks on Western forces if they do not leave Afghanistan, and are playing a part outraged by the failure to comply with the Doha agreement. All this while their turbaned killers go on with the targeted assassination campaign against every exponent of that modern professional bourgeoisie that in a peaceful future could become an opponent of the announced theocracy.
This time, however, US analysts leave no room for uncertainty: every deadline, old or new, on the departure of the military is a weakening of government positions at the Doha table, and therefore a gift to the fundamentalists. And the American administration can only take note of this: once the Pandora’s box of military intervention has been opened, it is impossible to close it again without risk. As some commentators write: withdrawing the Western presence now, sacrificing the Afghan future, would remain in history like the Munich agreement of 1938, when the illusion of a yielding peace gave the green light to Adolf Hitler.
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