NEW: The US military has confirmed that the last American aircraft has left Kabul.
A Western intervention which has lasted 20 years, is over.
A Western intervention which has lasted 20 years, is over.
20 years ago the West went in to depose the Taliban and ensure Afghanistan could no longer be a safe haven for terrorism.
After $2trn, thousands of deaths local reports are that the Taliban are celebrating by firing their guns into the air.
After $2trn, thousands of deaths local reports are that the Taliban are celebrating by firing their guns into the air.
Formal announcement from General McKenzie here
https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1432443429879955461
McKenzie says that the last Americans to leave Afghanistan were the US Ambassador and Major General Chris Donohue.
Biden will deeply relieved that the withdrawal operation completed without another (successful) terrorist attack. But in retreating he has ceded whatever limited control he had over the country and what happened there. To some extent he’s now mercy to those events.
Which is sort of why an American President went in in the first place.
Those Afghanis who are enemies of the new Taliban regime, or who have lost their freedoms, will be feeling their own powerlessness far more acutely still.
Those Afghanis who are enemies of the new Taliban regime, or who have lost their freedoms, will be feeling their own powerlessness far more acutely still.
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