Nadene Goldfoot
President Donald Trump, center, with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, behind him at right, while addressing members of the Nmilitary during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (Alex Brandon/AP)
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan describes the draw down of United States Armed Forces in the Afghanistan war and the plans after its post-2014 presence when most combat troops had left Afghanistan at the end of 2014.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the threat posed by the Soviet Union,, had planned on maintaining 13,000 troops including 9,800 Americans in an advisory and counter-terrorism capacity in Afghanistan during the 2015 phase of the War in Afghanistan and they were expected to maintain a presence inside Afghanistan until well after the end of 2016. In July 2016, in light of the deteriorating security conditions, the US postponed the withdrawal until December 2016 and decided to maintain a force of 8,400 troops in 4 garrisons (Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram and Jalalabad) indefinitely due to Taliban resurgence attempt after the Battle of Kunduz. The withdrawal was completed in December 2016 leaving behind 8,400 troops.
"On 1 July 2020, the United States Senate rejected an attempt by Rand Paul's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have required the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan within a year and brought an end to the 19-year war. On 8 August 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the United States would reduce troop levels to below 5,000 by the end of November 2020.". We are at that point right now.
race. It won't be decided until tomorrow or even later.
President Donald Trump had said in a surprise to the military people that he would pull out all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. This was part of his election campaign in trying to win votes as the Americans are getting tired of it. Trump is responsible for initiating historic peace talks with the Taliban, now proceeding with the Afghan government. A top lawmaker on defense says there was no actual plan to withdraw troops by Christmas.
The US and Nato allies have agreed to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal.
President Trump said it had been a "long and hard journey" in Afghanistan. "It's time after all these years to bring our people back home," he said.
Talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban are due to follow.
Under the agreement, the militants also agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control.
An agreement signed between the United States and the Taliban on February 29, 2020, marks a milestone in America’s longest ever war. Accordingly, the majority of U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2021.
India and Pakistan are also involved in this peace treaty with the terrorist group. "The desire for stability in Afghanistan, the need to identify the IS-K as the enemy (Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) is the Islamic State’s Central Asian province and remains active three years after its inception) , and the need to ensure that Afghanistan should not be used as a launch pad by international terrorists," are the concern. The three areas of divergence and difference are the United States’ reliance on Pakistan, its increasing reliance on the Taliban, and its muted response when it comes to Pakistani terrorist groups such as the LeT.
I hope that Afghanistan has its own troops ready to protect their citizens from Taliban terrorism and any others when American troops are pulled out, and be ready to yell for help to America if any of the conditions for peace were broken.
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I understand that IS-K is a part of ISIS, the gross group who for shock value to instill fear, behead people, so bloody that they train small children to kill people. So they must be mutating into groups such as IS-K now.
"U.S. policy indicates the recognition of—and response to—the threat posed by IS-K and the escalating violence it has provoked in Central Asia. The U.S. Department of State designated IS-K as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on January 14, 2016, and United States Central Command has escalated its air campaign against the group since 2016 when rules of engagement expanded under President Obama and President Trump. According to data compiled by ACLED, U.S. and NATO airstrikes against IS-K have been conducted over 300 times since January 2017. Though the group’s presence across Afghanistan is increasing, airstrikes have been nearly exclusive to Nangarhar and Kunar provinces (96 percent of all airstrikes since January 2017) in an effort to target operational bases and leadership. All in all, while IS-K’s goal of establishing an Islamic state in Central Asia remains improbable, its propensity for exploiting grievances, catalyzing instability, and taking advantage of ungoverned spaces will make peaceful reconciliation and nation-building in Afghanistan difficult for the foreseeable future."
In other words, we leave Afghanistan to face ISIS, the evil we thought had been wiped out.
There were estimated to be about 11 million Pashtun in Afghanistan and 25 million in Pakistan in the early 21st century. They comprise about 60 tribes of varying size and importance, each of which occupies a particular territory. Many of them are thought to be from the original 10 Lost Tribes of Jacob, the northern tribes that made up Israel who were captured by the Assyrians and taken away.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Afghanistan
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