It will be on West’s conscience if Afghanistan is again caught in a never-ending cycle of bloodshed and hostilities.
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: After 9/11, the Americans returned to Afghanistan to clear the mess they created when leaving the country in the late 1980s. Is history going to repeat itself in a post-2014 scenario? I would say yes, because as usual, no one has learned any lesson from history. Apparently post-2014, the Afghan script will be far bloodier than what the world watched in horror in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. That is why, a number of American and Nato military commanders, who have led the war in Afghanistan, are saying that Washington and its allies should not abandon Afghanistan entirely.
It will be on the West’s conscience if Afghanistan is again caught in a never-ending cycle of bloodshed and hostilities. If the West fails to act today, I am sure it won’t be long before we see another intervention to save the whole region from the clutches of forces of tyranny.
Masood Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2014.
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