President Joe Biden has decided that there will not be a single American soldier on Afghan soil by September 11, 2021, twenty years after the Islamist attacks in New York and Washington.
It is a decision publicly regretted by the Chief of Staff of Her Majesty's Armies, the best allies of the American forces for more than a century.
With an all British sense of
understatement
, General Nick Carter said:
"This is not the exit we were hoping for."
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At the Bonn conference in December 2001, held a month after the departure of the Taliban from Kabul, the Americans, the British and their NATO allies promised that they would rebuild, democratize and develop Afghanistan.
The reconstruction was very well done.
In the trillion dollars that Americans have spent on this country in the space of twenty years, it is not just military spending.
There are also the magnificent road and telephone networks that they have built.
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