The News Nigeria
By Yahaya Balogun
Diplomatically, it must have been frustratingly dawn on the US State Department and President Biden to see Kabul crumbling before our very eyes. The intelligence agencies have accurately predicted the fall of Kabul. Let the pundits engage in political argy-bargy. The evolving nuances of the world’s geopolitical structure should be very instructive to all stakeholders in the United States. Counter-insurgency and great partnership are not possible without a strong government which is abysmally lacking in Afghanistan. Our military and Afghan Vets performed their roles honorably in the unwinnable war. They should be honored so! It must be reiterated that western democracy is nonexistent and unworkable in the reasonably religious and tribal region of the geopolitics in the middle eastern world.
Without any equivocation, one message that this concerned writer will earnestly recommend to President Biden in this defining moment of his administration’s foreign policy is that: America’s occupation of Afghanistan is perpetually unsustainable. Now, this pertinent message above should be resonating in our national conversation. First but, Biden’s administration must ensure national dialogue and amplify it beyond the United States’ shores. The US and its allies have no business in Afghanistan after the chief perpetrators of September 11, 2001, have been captured and exterminated. On the wee hours of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Americans and the world woke up to the stunning news of rude attacks on American soil by a terror group Al-Qaeda. America and its allies waged a battle against the rustic region. The Taliban and its affiliates have heard the loud message that you cannot attack America and go scot-free.
For a pertinent reason, this is not the time for the blame game in the US. The US withdrawal from occupied Afghanistan should not be viewed as a failure of intelligence and imagination; rather, it should be seen as problematic decision-making and diplomatic venture that augurs well for the Afghans’ future and the people of the United States. But, unfortunately, the western media’s mercantilists will come to the fore! Like famished hawks, the western media will pounce on the unfolding news to dissuade the mind of the American people who want the “forgotten war” halted and stopped.
Expectedly and politically, The liberal democrats will be in a slumbering cave to amplify and stay on a generally acceptable message that will resonate in the consciousness of the American people. But, they will lose the news to the power-hunger-grabbing republicans. The hawkish republicans will use this ugly unfolding development in Afghanistan to play their usual selfish and monotheistic politics. GOP will fail with their political message because most Americans want the United States of America out of the trenched occup…
