{"id":1491,"date":"2019-11-07T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:55:45","slug":"no-hope-of-stopping-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"No Hope of stopping War in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The war in Afghanistan continues unabated for the 18th<\/sup> consecutive year.\nSuicide attacks continue unabated. A figure of about fifty people in which civilians and Afghans soldiers are included\ndies every day in\nAfghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suicide attacks do not discriminate targeting both camps and mosques,\nschools, and all kinds of festive family events of the Afghan people. Their\nsole purpose is to provoke as many dead and wounded in civilians as the Afghan\npeople begin to increase pressure and ultimately turn against the Afghan\ngovernment by believing that it cannot protect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Increasing losses in civilians<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO’s withdrawal (2014) has left the field of fighting free in the Taliban and the Afghan army supported by NATO and foreign forces. The result of this is the entire province of the country and not only the big cities have turned into a huge field of conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afghan commandos and Afghan National Army Air Corps 2010<\/strong>
Photo by US Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David Quillen
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The recent United Nations report (17\/10\/2019) states that the UN\nAssistance Mission Afghanistan (UNAMA) for the first nine months of 2019\ncounted more than 8200 casualties civilians with 2563 dead and 5676 injured (Source:\nUN, https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/10\/1049491<\/a> ) with the majority of them being women and children.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to increasing the incidence and killing of suicide attacks, the\nincrease in the number of victims contributes to the US and Afghan Army air\nbombing. But suicide attacks are like uncontrollable bombings applied by the\nIslamic State through the jicantists who operate in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A large part of the population to survive this “hell” is forced\neither to emigrate to other neighbouring countries with the ultimate purpose of\nbeing led to Europe at some point or to abandon their houses and their\npossessions and to seek family refuge in displaced persons camps operating on\nthe outskirts of major cities and particularly on the outskirts of the capital\nKabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in these displaced persons camps are not covered basic humanitarian\nneeds since there is no water supply while the electricity is scarce during the\nday and night. The only aid to meet the nutritional needs in the displaced\npersons camps comes from the humanitarian organisations\u2019. But it is very likely\nin the future that this aid should be interrupted as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afghanistan’s economy<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Afghan residents simply survive and since the proportion of population living below the national poverty\nline (in percentages) increased in 54,5% (2016-2017) from 38% (2011-2012). The percentage of\nfood-insecure population is at the level of 44,6%. The annual official\nunemployment is at 23,1% (Source: Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey, Islamic\nRepublic of Afghanistan, Central Statistics Organization, www.cso.gov.af<\/a> ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ‘curse’ of the Afghan people lies in the corruption plaguing the state\napparatus. In conjunction with the excessive security problem facing the\ncountry, the Afghan economy is heavily dependent on the international\ncommunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hope for Peace<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As US President Donald Trump in every way desires the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and before the presidential elections in November 2020, there is hope that the Taliban will be forced to sit at the table of talks with the US and the Afghan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hamid Karzai-President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2006) after the fall of Taliban dominates the political scene of the country<\/strong>
Source: The White House, Photo by Paul Morse, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But the question in this case is that as time goes by, the President of the\nUnited States will be pressed and pushed to reach a peace agreement in order to\npull the American troops back to the US by presenting it to the American\nelectorate that he kept his pre-election promise before the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if the Taliban enter talks with the US without having to agree to\nanything with the sole aim of simply gnawing time they will indirectly increase\nthe pressure for results on the US side and then there will be a high risk of\neither not achieving Peace Agreement or a fragile agreement is reached until\nthe American troops from Afghanistan have left, perpetuating after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional issues that want cleanup are whether the Taliban will accept to\nreturn to the country’s politics without retaining an armed arm. In addition to\nany talks between the US and the Taliban, political-religious and human rights\nissues and women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan will have to be cleared up the next\nday so that the Taliban will not arise new issues after the closure of the\ntalks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the crucial issue arising from these peace talks is not whether\nthe Taliban will talk to the United States but whether any government that will\nemerge after the talks and free elections will be able to put the country in\norder after the withdrawal of NATO and US troops, respectively, in order to\nlaunch the long-suffering economy of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently the only solution-hope of the Afghan people to return to their\nhomes and fields is to have peace between the Taliban and the Afghan\ngovernment. A solution that still does not appear on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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