As the United States completes its pullout from Afghanistan, the usual suspects worry aloud that the country won’t be able to manage without us. What they and other people with a neo-colonialist mentality don’t realize is that Afghanistan is a sovereign country and that we have been interfering with it unnaturally for 20 years.
How Will They Manage without Us?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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More of a question of how we’ll manage without them. All it will take is one Taliban-credited incident in the United States and we’ll arrive at Morton’s Fork: do we turn right around and go back for another 20-year error? Or do we admit that asymmetrical warfare has finally achieved its Moon Shot?
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1893821/world Interesting stuff re: the prediction that the Taliban will change nothing. Of course, it’s too early to tell for sure, and the true test will be in the cities. Still, this and other reports already suggest the rural areas weren’t quite so simple as you wrote before, and are going to suffer. “Independence” for the nation may have a high price for the individuals within it – surely you’ve seen this in Central Asia.