Afghanistan Pros And Cons

The U.S. is at the right time and in the right place, but it has chosen wrong individuals. Partnership with Afghanistan is vital to the U.S., and it’s endorsed by the Afghans through a lengthy and democratic process. Emerging threats of ISIL, Russian’s aggressive strategy, Chinese domination vision for the region and Pakistan as a fragile nuclear state and sponsor of terrorism require a U.S. and NATO presence in the region.

Since 2001 the U.S. taxpayers has paid around $113.1 billion for the security and reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, and at least 2247 U.S. military personnel died and more than 20000 wounded in the war against terrorists. Afghans paid the highest price with tens of thousands civilian and uniformed Afghans died and

It produces around 75 of the world opium. It is still among the most corrupt and insecure countries. But this is not what they want, most of these illegal and unwanted staff imposed by some corrupt politicians, warlords, transnational criminal groups, and terrorists. The Afghan people may benefit the least, but they get the most blame. Being among the poorest countries of the world is an example that neither all these aids nor the illegal money stay in Afghanistan.

Of course, during the last five years, in particular since the establishment of the National Unity Government, Afghanistan is in rigorous economic, political and security crisis, and it is more fragile than ever. Some of the existence problems have been inherited from the previous administrations and some new issues added to those. But it should not mean to give up.

Let’s look at the last 15 years. Despite all these challenges, overall Afghanistan is more prosperous than

At its peak in 2010, the U.S. had 100000 troops in Afghanistan, and President Obama announced 99% reduction of the troops after 2015. In several announcements, the numbers dramatically increased and decreased. Per initial plan, there should be only 5400 U.S. troops in 2017 in Afghanistan, but at the moment there are around 9800 of them. Some may favor this strategy and call this a flexible approach, but there is not any flexible war, in particular, war a terrorism can't be flexible and reckless. This rapid change in the US policy during the last seven years has created an uncertain situation in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is a strategic partner and Afghanistan a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) of the U.S. It's expected that the US should have a steady and long-term strategy for Afghanistan. History teaches us that any early decision and disengagement will not make Afghanistan safe place, but a safe heaven of terrorism and insurgents. In the late1980s the former Soviet Union abandoned Afghan government, and the regime fell in the hand of Afghan Mujahaddin. in the 1990s the U.S. abandoned the Mujahedin, and it was overthrown by the international terrorism and Taliban, which has resulted in the 9/11