BY: Kendra Carpenter
In 2001, right after United States citizens’ lives completely changed with 9/11, Afghanistan was taken by storm to capture leader Osama Bin Laden. Since 2001, the U.S armed forces have been fighting while continuing to be attacked. In 2014, the Afghan National Security Forces were put in charge and still took multiple defeats. The U.S sent more troops over in 2017 to continue to attempt to overthrow the Taliban’s troops. Between 2020 and 2021, attacks have gotten increasingly worse. Women having rights is also at high risk as well. The Taliban do plan on reversing the rights that women and young girls once had.
These are all very important and terrifying events that are still happening. With that being said, our current U.S President Joe Biden has pulled our troops out of Afghanistan, leaving our fellow Americans behind to be shot and killed. He claims that this was for the betterment of the United States to help bring our troops home. He feels like his decision was going to have to happen, even with Trump’s era agreement, which consists of a peace agreement that he made with the Taliban. The agreement states the Taliban will prevent anyone from using Afghan soil to threaten the U.S. In my opinion, this decision by President Biden made things a lot worse. I do not think this was planned for the best. Why? As soon as U.S. troops were pulled, the Taliban troops unleashed multiple attacks and captures on at least ten different capitals. Six thousand troops were removed as of August 15. As of August 23, medical supplies are being sent to Afghanistan and being held up by Kabul’s airport. They left on August 31.
Global Contract states they want to keep and preserve any of the human rights and armed forces that they can since the year 2001. It also states that another concern is that Afghanistan may or may not turn into a terrorist safe haven.
Sources:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/19/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-trump-taliban-deal-506215
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-afghanistan