At first glance, the frightened American escape from Afghanistan even before the deadline for evacuation, and the quick takeover of the country by the Taliban forces, including the presidential palace in the capital Kabul, inevitably entails a real paradox.
After all, the American eagle had already experienced a similar traumatic experience in late April 1975, fleeing in disgrace in the face of a total attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces on its southern ally, which soon led to the conquest of Saigon and the unification of the entire country under communist rule.
Thus, he was supposed to draw lessons from the futility of an ongoing low-intensity confrontation with a jealous and determined ideological enemy, far removed from his worldview and patterns of conduct from the American "operational code."
Moreover, his early acquaintance with the Afghan arena was supposed to put a bright warning light on him even before he began, in October 2001, his direct military involvement at the heart of this discrimination.
For, two decades before the current episode of American warfare in Afghanistan began, and in the wake of the Soviet invasion of the country in December 1979, the infiltration of American military advisers and instructors into Pakistan, its neighbor, which soon became a front-line force of mujahideen forces established by the U.S. And qualified for the struggle against the Soviet army (which indeed made a crucial contribution to the humiliating defeat of the Kremlin and its withdrawal from Afghanistan after a decade of failures and bloodshed).
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And despite the close American acquaintance with the Afghan being saturated with the rift and tribal, ethnic and religious friction, and despite seemingly gaining experience in conducting low-intensity guerrilla warfare on this front against the regular forces of the Soviet Union, Washington has not produced the necessary lessons. Thus the United States once again, and directly, entered the Afghan killing field out of a naive belief that the values, foundations and institutions of Western democracy could be established in a single flash, thus becoming a stable and functioning nation-state, in the spirit of American dream and heritage.
Indeed, as in the Vietnamese swamp, it soon became clear in Afghanistan that the local allies of the American bishop at the top of government in Kabul were light years away from the currents that were constantly bubbling and bubbling in the periphery.
Just as 1960s America tied its fate to the filthy Saigon, so the 21st-century U.S. continued to maintain "special relations" with the corrupt administration in the Afghan capital, which failed to pose a real challenge to the radical and militant currents of the Taliban.
President Obama was the first to act to reduce US involvement in Afghanistan after acknowledging the futility of the massive investment on this front.
His successor in the White House, Donald Trump, followed suit and set May 1, 2021 as the target date for the completion of evacuations of U.S. troops from the sector.
However, it was President Biden who actually decided on the date of the evacuation, which soon became an uncontrolled escape.
U.S. President Joe Biden, AP
In this context, it should not be forgotten that it was Vice President Biden, who in the Obama administration represented the most naive position of all, that a functioning coalition between the Kabul administration and the Taliban movement is a possible and feasible task.
His almost mystical belief "that every problem has a solution", and that the redemptive formula can always be found, which will enable the formulation of practical and pragmatic solutions even to complex disputes, is ancient, therefore, from the intra-American plane straight to the Afghan battlefield, the Western concepts of compromise and "settlement Fair ”were and remain completely foreign to him.
In light of this ongoing campaign of illusions and inability to understand the nature and essence of cultures dominated by radical actors, beginning in Vietnam and ending in Afghanistan, the question arises what will be the regional implications and history of the current collapse.
Although it is still too early to draw definite conclusions from the harsh and embarrassing sights of the superpower trying on its soul without a shred of honor from a front in which 2,400 of its fighters were killed, it can be assumed that the moderate Sunni world on the one hand and Israel on the other will soon reassess Gulliver's credibility. Today as a tiger of paper.
Taliban fighters and civilians in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, AFP
Indeed, in light of Biden's clear priorities, which placed the international space at an angle (except in the Chinese context), the question arises not only what will be the fate of the "Abraham Agreements" in days when the American patron is no longer able to provide any "safety net" to the client state His but also will future major pillars in the international system (led by Moscow and Beijing) try to improve positions and challenge the American Gulliver, which is on the cable?
