US tries to save its face in both Afghanistan and Syria
KARACHI: The US is trying to save its face in both Afghanistan and Syria. The Trump administration, after pulling more than a thousand troops out of Afghanistan, has also announced pulling out all its forces from Syria. With failed strategies and after years of ruining and pushing both the countries way back in terms of development, the US has now decided to leave them in the hands of its allies and other warring parties. Regardless the step does not even ensure if it will ever change the situation in Syria, as Turkey, Iran and Russia are to stay there as long as it serves their interests.
It is unjust not to seek a political solution to a conflict but to pull the troops out while claiming that threat has been eliminated.
Umama Shabbir
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2018.
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