A UN convoy was attacked today on the outskirts of the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing five Afghan security forces who were part of an escort force bringing the UN agency’s vehicles through the area. A driver was also reported killed.
Details are still scant, though the UN said none of their people were hurt. The Afghan Interior Ministry issued a statement blaming the Taliban. The Taliban has denied having anything to do with it.
It isn’t necessarily the Taliban, as they have not recently gone after UN forces. ISIS-K, the local ISIS affiliate, has been responsible for a lot of recent attacks in and around Kabul.
The UN issued a statement demanding violence in Afghanistan end, and so long as the government can blame the Taliban for the attack, they can spin this into a condemnation of the Taliban. With the peace process in growing danger, this could be a bad sign.
Why’s the UN in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires? The twelve hundred UN employees in Afghanistan have the mission of forming a useful government while the US continues to attack the remnants of the government it overthrew almost twenty years ago. Nation-building is not working, but Biden is on it, and if old sleepy can’t do it, nobody can. Biden should have listened to Bush the younger, who famously campaigned against nation building in 2000.
“The UN issued a statement demanding violence in Afghanistan end” . . .so perhaps the US will stop bombing? . . hah