In this first week after the US failed to withdraw from Afghanistan on May 1, as initially agreed, there was early hope of a resolution of the crisis. Reports emerged of the US and Taliban quietly negotiating to get the Taliban to a Turkish peace conference, with talk of a ceasefire, and that the US was offering to move the pullout date to early July as a compromise.
That looks less likely Wednesday, as US forces are carrying out airstrikes against Taliban targets around Helmand Province. Officially, the US is presenting this as “support of Afghan national security forces.”
This is a particularly surprising time for such a move, as it comes just a day after the US transferred the Helmand Post to the Afghan Army. The Afghan military was fighting the Taliban in several provinces, including Helmand, but the US was not involved. Conspicuously, as part of the ongoing talks the Taliban had not been attacking the US forces, seemingly trying to avoid starting up a big fight as deals near for a pullout.
The US clearly is less concerned with avoiding lengthening the war, as having taken the provocative step of reneging on the May 1 pullout date, they are now attacking Taliban targets outright, which certainly isn’t going to lend credence to the idea that they are willing to pull their small remnant force from Afghanistan in just two more months.
Thee never ending war. Joe is a puppet.
I disagree. A puppet needs someone to pull its strings. Biden is an independent war monger.
Goes back to the /Carter Reagan administrations. We aided in sucking the Russian into Afghanistan, which resulted in a 10 year war there. Russian died. Afghans died.
Last week the Regional governor and CinC of the Army were visiting Helmand and bragging how well things were going. Guess they didn’t have the same intel the USAF had. Or maybe they’ve restarted the kinetic poppy eradications again.
Ole Joe has become a Hillary hawk. This is not just bad it is unconscible. Just one more piece of evidence that the Biden crew of Sullivan, Blinken, Newland and odd sense of right & wrong, fairness and justice is out of their depth in the dangerous to invade and occupy land of Afghanistan!!! I predict that he and his crew of war criminals and usurpers will come to rue the day that they made this rookie blunder with the considetably more honest and capable Taliban in their land of empire destroyers.
Ole Joe was a Hillary hawk before Hillary was a Hillary hawk.
Excellent! Now repeat quickly 5 times in a row.
That is one sure way to stay involved in a war while they boast about leaving. I doubt the MSM will extensively highlight this attack. But, they will definitely be there to report if/when the Taliban respond.
Did anybody really think the war would end and the troops would actually come home?
Obama said he would end the war and had 8 years to do it, Trump said the same and had 4 years to do it. When will people wake up and see both parties lie? If politicians told the truth nobody would vote for them. American gov. is based on lies and deceit.
Both parties lie?? I’m shocked at that information!
So, are we blowing up Afghan forces along with the Taliban forces???