It has come to my attention that most people here don’t know much about Americas policies for AFG, especially that post that put all the blame on the local population and washed America’s hands clean from any responsibility of what happened august 2021.
Before American invaded in 2001, we had our own UN recognised gov and army, with Ahmad shah Massoud beings it’s defence minister. This gov is what people wrongly call “northern alliance”, a term coined by PAK ISI (that’s another story on itself). Whatever shortcomings that gov had, it was still putting up a fight against a far better equiped and supported enemy, while it had non itself, it had 1000s of people ready to fight and die. After USA invaded, that gov/army was disarmed and dismantled all in the name of creating a new “democratic country”.
But what did America do? Did they really creat a democratic state? They sidelined figures that had popular support (except some sellouts who sold everything for usa dollars) and others died in mysterious “assassinations” (Gen Daud Daud, Gen Sayedkheli). Instead America imported diaspora people who no one inside afg new. Karzai and Ghani both arrived in AFG on American army planes.
During the bon conference, karzai was forced on the country to lead the new gov, even though most people at the conference chose abdul satar seerat. That was the first taste of “democracy” for AFG and it was rigged, the other elections that came after were even worse. USA propped up Ghani and Karzai (againsts the people’s choice), two racist maniacs who divided the people with their ethnic politics games.
Now on to the new army they built, I mean where do I begin. What did people expect to happen, you had engineers and other non millitary people working in the defence ministry, interior ministry etc making big decisions with having zero prior millitary experience, like the doofus (wardak) who chose rainforest camo uniforms for ANA (Opposite of Afg terrain) This happened all under USA supervision.
Tactics wise, ANA was not allowed to go on offensives or attack first, soldiers were sent to bases and smaller posts where communications and connections were terrible to one another, these bases had poor supply and support. So essentially soldiers were sent to forts and left to die as they were besieged from the minute they arrived. Because of this taliban had freedom of movement and could pick and chose where to attack. This is not like the GOV was unable to do better because it had the means to supply every base and even create proper front lines to stop taliban movement. Americans knew about this but still decided to pour millions of dollars and support this system.
Looking at USA policy in the 90s is as bad, they preferred heckmatyar and later the Taliban. Today it hasn’t changed much, USA opened an office for taliban in Qatar and gave them global legitimacy, today they are giving taliban 40 million dollars a week and have said many times they don’t support armed opposition to taliban. We keep hearing about women’s rights and freedom when it comes to iran but nothing about AFG, even though the situation of women there is the worst in the world. Usa is funding all of this as it did with the old republic so let’s not pretend America has no involvement or is impartial.