Since the war against the Taliban began, U.S. forces have suffered more than 2,300 deaths, with about 20,660 soldiers injured in action.
, Elizabeth Radcliffe contends that Hume is right to suggest that passion and reason are not mutually exclusive. They both are necessary to ignite people’s motivation. As it turns out, however, passion not tanks, is how wars are won and lost.
The last U.S. troops left the base on Friday, July 2, with President Biden promising a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops in Afghanistan by the end of August. He plans to leave only a small contingent of soldiers to guard the American embassy in Kabul. The most powerful country on earth, after deploying the most sophisticated military force the world has ever known and spending close to a trillion dollars, parked up and left hurriedly.
Between 2010 and 2012, the cost of the war in Afghanistan grew to almost $100 billion a year. That was at the time when more than 100,000 American soldiers were stationed there. As the number of troops were drawn down, the cost got a little lower but never less than $40 billion a year. To put things in perspective, the National Assembly approved the Nigerian government’s 2021 budget of N13.6 trillion . That means that the U.S., at some point, was spending an equivalent of three times the Nigerian budget, every year, fighting a war in a country with a population whose size was just a little bigger than South-West Nigeria.
They were chased out of power, carpet bombed, killed and utterly dismembered. Their leadership was decapitated, and yet, they persisted, waited it out and prevailed in the end. Again. You could say that there is still a secular Afghan government in place at the time of this writing, but the mere fact that we got to a point where the U.S. is now negotiating with the Talibans, is in and of itself a huge victory for the group.
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