Sunday, August 15, 2021
RT reports:
President Ashraf Ghani has left Afghanistan, paving the way for the Taliban to take control of the country after the militant group marched on Kabul, senior official Abdullah Abdullah has confirmed.
Ghani fled the Afghan capital on Sunday, following a stunning Taliban offensive that ended at the gates of Kabul. Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, said that “he left Afghanistan in a hard time, God hold him accountable.”
The militants called for negotiations, after claiming they wanted to avoid a battle that could cost civilian lives. The president left the country accompanied by his “close aides,” TOLO, an Afghan news channel, reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
A source told Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency that Ghani had fled to Tajikistan and would soon travel from there to a third country.
https://www.rt.com/news/532104-ghani-left-afghanistan/
It will be interesting to see if any US policymakers are held accountable for this disaster. Considering that the war is over two decades old, it is unrealistic to think so. Hopefully, US policymakers will learn something from this misadventure. Or perhaps the voters will make the party in power, or the neocons pay for this loss. Judging from over a century of US history, however, both of these outcomes are unlikely.