America's experiment in Afghanistan

15th August 2021 when India was celebrating its 75th Independence Day, news came out from our neighbor country Afghanistan which must have disturbed us. On August 16, the USA and its western allies fled away, betraying the nation, horrifying videos of people falling from the US planes, people passing their children to the strangers came out. The so-called democratic and modern societies have hung their heads in shame.

These are the exclusive news and headlines that media and even people find interesting.

But, being no expert and opinionist, I am not here to express my views and unwarranted opinions. I just wanted to tell you about some history and dark secrets of some so-called withholders of democracy, which people might have forgotten over time. A closely guarded secret of the cold war era(1947-1989).

Mujahideen: Sponsered by USA

According to historians, strategic thinkers, and experts:

Afghanistan: Graveyard of empires is 

• Easy to invade,
• Difficult to conquer,
• Impossible to rule.

All credit goes to its geography, ethnic division, and socio-economic division. 

Most people think that the USA has been involved in Afghanistan since 2001, no, it has been in Afghanistan since the 1950s through its heavy investments.

USSR/ Soviet Union(now Russia) invaded Afghanistan to safeguard and propagate communism in 1979, US was worried about its anticipated loss of global hegemony with the spread of Communism in South-East Asia. This fear gave birth to global terrorism. In 1979, US officials secretly met the local Afghan rebels with the help of Pakistan. 

More than 1,00,000 Mujahideen have been trained by the US secret agency CIA and its allies, UK's MI6 and Pakistan's ISI. "Jihadists" were recruited from Saudi Arabia, the funding started at $550.000 which reached $630 million annually by 1987. America named this operation "Operation Cyclone" to remove USSR from Afghanistan's soil like a cyclone.

Above is the picture of the world's most powerful designatory meeting the US declared so-called "Freedom fighters" in the world's most powerful office. In the above picture, then-president Ronald Reagan is having a cup of tea with Mujahideens of Afghanistan in his office, 1981. 

Who created the Taliban?

After smuggling $20 billion of weapons and advanced defense technology to Mujahideen through Pakistan till the pullout of Soviet forces and the end of the cold war with the fall of the Berlin wall,  Mujahideens divided into different local fractions. In the 1990s, the civil war begins in Afghanistan in which the Taliban emerged as the winner in 1996. People trusted the Taliban as their option to get rid of tyranny and corruption by Soviet-backed government, but how they have unleashed themselves is no secret to the world. Completing its mission in Afghanistan, the US refrain from further helping the Taliban. This made the US an enemy of the Taliban.

Groups like al-Qaeda, Hizbul mujahideen, and jaish-e-Mohammad have the same origin, the Taliban. Terrorist attacks and militancy were at their peak in Kashmir and around the world in the 1990s. Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief comes from a rich family of Saudi Arabia, which was the US ally in the creation of Mujahideen.

Many would think of these above facts as a conspiracy theory, but, it is not.

"OSAMA BIN LADEN was the product of monumental miscalculation by western security forces "

                                                                                             - Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary(1997-2001)

Similar statements were reiterated by Benazir Bhutto, slain PM of Pakistan, and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, that too publicly.

Even Hollywood used to dedicate their movies to the Mujahideens "Jihadists" back in the 1980s. Western media used to work day and night to declare them as freedom fighters and manufactured the term"Jihad" as the righteous and religious cause.

Conclusion

The whole aim of this blog was to state some facts and hypocrisy of the world's most powerful country, which has always been hungry for more power and possessive for its ideas. They did never acknowledged the concern of a democratic country "India" which has suffered the most from terrorism till the time they themselves got humiliated by the same on September 11, 2001. More than 3000 citizens have been killed by the money their country has paid to their killers.

There is a controversial theory running around that the big arms dealers and companies had lobbied the US government to keep the war going in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya even after the killing of Bin Laden in 2011, to keep their business going high.

The US spent $3 trillion in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. More than 4000 US soldiers, 75,000 afghan and American citizens have been killed by their own provided weapons. Money can't buy everything, USA learned this hard way. Now the same illiterate monsters of stone-age mentality have captivated a nation through the same roads and highways built by the USA and India.

After all this harassment, Barak Obama allowed the Taliban to open a diplomatic office in Doha, Qatar back in 2014, for peace. 

Where is Peace?