[Epoch Times August 18, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Li Linqing interviewed and reported) Recently, Taliban militants took the Afghan capital Kabul by lightning and caught the international community, including the United States, by surprise. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan retreated. The picture spread all over the world. The CCP’s mouthpiece issued a statement claiming that “the decline of American hegemony”. Scholars analyze that the US sent troops to Afghanistan to fight against al-Qaeda terrorists and has nothing to do with hegemony; now the US military is withdrawing from Afghanistan, or to deal with the CCP.
In April of this year, Biden decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan on September 11, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 incident that led to the U.S. sending troops to Afghanistan. After the United States launched its troop withdrawal plan in early May, the Taliban violated the peace agreement reached with the US government last year and began continuous attacks on parts of Afghanistan. By August 15, as the Taliban invaded the Afghan capital of Kabul, President Ashraf Ghani fled overseas, the government fell, and the Taliban gained control of the country.
On the day the Taliban invaded Kabul, the entire city was enveloped in the roar of helicopters transporting diplomats. Helicopters took off and landed at the U.S. Embassy, and pictures of evacuees were widely circulated on the Internet. And a large number of people in Afghanistan tried to flee the country’s capital. Images on social media showed crowds running on the airport tarmac, and some even clung to the activated US military transport plane. The scene is quite chaotic.
The Taliban control Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and the Chinese media cheered, saying that the United States or the US military had failed in Afghanistan. On August 16, Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, published a commentary article “The Fall of Kabul Sounds the Death Knell for the Decline of American Hegemony.” The article again ridiculed the United States with extreme sarcasm.
The article stated that in October 2001, the United States launched a war in Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to overthrow the Taliban regime, which seemed to have achieved great success. Twenty years later, the U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan sadly, and they are now being forced to evacuate the last diplomats in a hurry. A few days ago, the White House was still advocating that the United States had trained and equipped hundreds of thousands of Afghan government forces. The US intelligence report stated that it may take three months for the Taliban to capture Kabul…
The article also stated that the total cost of the war exceeded 2 trillion US dollars. Afghanistan needs “bottomless pit-style” investment, which is a “baggage” that has to be thrown away. The “fall of Kabul” marked another turning point in the decline of US hegemony.
On September 11, 2001, a series of suicide terrorist attacks that shocked the world occurred in the United States. Assault. The total number of people who died or disappeared in the 9/11 incident was at least 2,996. The US military launched a war in Afghanistan that year on the grounds that the Taliban refused to submit the suspect bin Laden.
In an interview with Epoch Times reporter on August 17, a senior media person and former philosophy scholar at Xi’an University, Hui Huyu said that “Xinhua’s statement is wrong.” Bin Laden created the September 11 terrorist attacks, which led to the US war in Africa. Nearly 3,000 people died during the period. The United States sent troops to Afghanistan not for hegemony, but to fight the Taliban government because it provides protection for al-Qaeda terrorist organizations.
Hui Huyu emphasized that the 9/11 terrorist attack was the largest terrorist attack in the United States since World War II and even since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It can be said that the United States sent troops to Afghanistan to serve the country and hate the family.
Hui Huyu said that later facts also proved that after the overthrow of the Taliban government, “bin Laden could not hide in Afghanistan”, the United States found his hiding place in Pakistan and “it sent troops to kill him.” Hui Huyu pointed out: “The United States did not send troops for hegemony in the first place, so there is no saying that hegemony has declined.”
Hui Huyu pointed out that the United States has completed its anti-terrorism task, and the withdrawal from Afghanistan is a strategic shift. “The U.S. withdrawal (Afghanistan) is not a helpless move. Its goal is to combat terrorism. It should withdraw after fighting.”
“In the past year, the United States‘ global strategic focus has been in the Asia-Pacific region.” “The United States‘ withdrawal from Afghanistan is not a failure, but a priority choice. Next, the United States may fully respond to the CCP.”
He said that the United States has been focusing on counter-terrorism for 20 years, but now it has discovered another problem-the CCP is the biggest threat to today’s civilized society in the world. It is increasingly endangering the United States, and the CCP has fully penetrated the United States in terms of technology, economy, and culture. “The CCP’s repressive actions against the Hong Kong people openly tore up the international treaty “Sino-British Joint Declaration” and implemented the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” in Hong Kong. “This is a naked occupation of Hong Kong and tramples on the world-recognized Pearl of the Orient.”
He pointed out that the CCP regime is more terrifying and extremely dangerous than the Taliban.
Li Tianxiao, a political science commentator at Columbia University, told the Epoch Times reporter that the United States sent troops to Afghanistan not for hegemony, but to eliminate the bin Laden terrorist organization that caused the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. It has nothing to do with the so-called hegemony.
“The United States must fundamentally eliminate the root cause of this terrorism, and get rid of Bin Laden, who caused harm to the United States, but the Taliban protects Bin Laden, so the United States will send troops to Afghanistan.” Li Tianxiao said, “The main reason is to protect Bin Laden. The United States sent troops to protect the interests of the American people.”
Li Tianxiao said: “Anti-terrorism is actually no longer the main threat facing the United States.”
He believes that the United States withdrew from Afghanistan to deal with the CCP. At present, the main threat to the United States comes from the plague on the one hand. The United States is looking for the source of the plague, which involves the CCP. The United States wants to find out whether the CCP deliberately spread the plague to the world; on the other hand, in response to the CCP’s hegemonic behavior in the Taiwan Strait, the United States wants to withdraw its military power from Afghanistan to strengthen the protection of Taiwan and the freedom of navigation on the high seas.
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