It's time the people of America started asking the hard questions
ISLAMABAD: The statement of US President Donald Trump’s next security adviser, John Bolton, that America didn’t start the war in Afghanistan sounds as ignorant as perhaps the US president is about most issues that surround his country. While speaking at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, Bolton said, “We didn’t start this war, we don’t want this war. But one side doesn’t get to say, ‘Okay, we’re tired of it, I think it’s over’.”
The war in Afghanistan began in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that shook the people in the US. To say that the US didn’t start the war or that the Americans are frustrated why American troops are still in Afghanistan only goes to show that a wrong narrative about the war in Afghanistan is being spread in the country. If the people of a country supported war in another country are unaware of the fact why their troops are stationed there, it means that the American people are being kept in the dark. And it’s time the people of America started asking the hard questions from their civilian and military leadership.
Reema Ansari
Published in The Express Tribune, March 26th, 2018.
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