America’s failure in Afghanistan after twelve years of brutal war
Ahmad Zia Rahimzai – writer & political analyst
A recent opinion poll conducted by the Pew Research Center and USA Today American news paper shows that half of Americans believe that America failed in achieving its goals in Afghanistan’s war, which is a slap in the face of white house’s strategies for Afghanistan, and even for their strategies in Iraq and other countries.
According to this survey, 40 to 50 percent of Americans believe that America has failed in achieving its goals in the war of Afghanistan.
However some people in response to this opinion poll which has been conducted about launching war in both Afghanistan and Iraq have justified Afghanistan’s war because Taliban was a shelter for Al-Qaida’s leader, but all of the interviewees have responded that attacking on Iraq was a mistake.
It is not the first time that Americans are negatively responding to the white house’s Afghanistan and Iraq war, but since twelve years from the very beginning of this war the peace-loving people of America and the world was opposing the violent approach of white house’s politicians specially the republicans but they did not paid attention in any circumstance.
The daily human-causalities of Americans in this unwanted contemporary war, the heavy expenditures it has caused to the threatened economy of America, the increasing hatred that Americans are suffering due to white house leaders’ violent policies from Bush to Obama and the increasing embarrassment and fear which is faced by Americans in Islamic countries are all the consequences of more than one decade of imposed war against Afghanistan and Iraq.
Americans can clearly see that America in the last one decade of war from the era of Bush up to now has increased the war and violence instead of decreasing it, which was one of America’s reasons to get in this field.
The likely short time of peace after the Taliban fall, has changed to a brutal and ruinous war in result of the white house’s dishonest policies which has caused disasters in Afghanistan and also for American people, today even president Karzai the closest friend of America is talking barely about the dishonesty of American policies and wants a guaranty of peace before signing the security pact.
The opinion poll and surveys which are conducted by American civil society and media organizations are much important than to see it just as an assessment. The people of America and all over the world are witnessing the imposed war over Afghanistan and Iraq. The bloodsheds in these wars and their weak will to bring peace in Afghanistan are the signs of their failure and if they continue like this, it would bring more failure for them.