Afghanistan – How the Taliban made the world less secure?
More than a year after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, national security experts believe that the war-ravaged country’s security landscape has become more fragile after the US pulled out its last troops. The main concern about Afghanistan for the US is that the Taliban is a hostile regime chasing American allies, while the extremist movement is a strong ally with Al Qaeda, which sequentially violates every promise they have ever made.
“The Taliban have been used to violating the rights and rights of girls and women in particular”, said Nathan Sales, a former State Department counterterrorism coordinator and current member of the Vandenberg Coalition advisory council. Other countries doing business in Afghanistan may move needles a little in one direction or another, but the Taliban’s basic dynamic is death worship, as if it were medieval and responsible for a country that openly contradicts American values and interests.
The American network confirmed that the Taliban took control of the capital Kabul after President Biden ordered a hasty withdrawal of the American military forces from Afghanistan, which ended in August 2021. At that time, the Taliban canceled a number of progressive measures that the United States helped to establish in the country, and the complexity of the already tense relationship between the United States and Pakistan, one of America’s main allies in the region.
“The world is a less secure place with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan,” said Bill Roggio, a former soldier in the Army Service. “We also saw that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in the heart of the capital Kabul.
According to the network, US President Joe Biden announced on August 1 that the US had killed al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, in a “successful” counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan. A senior administration official said: The government identified al-Zawahiri “for standing on the balcony for long periods of time, where he was eventually wounded,” but Taliban officials claimed a few days later that they were unaware that al-Zawahiri was in Kabul; This raised questions about the safety of the country, which has remained under the control of the Taliban.
The network continued: The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has led to significant complications within the country and with other countries – particularly on the issue of legitimacy, no country has recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan’s leader, partly because of the decline in rights evident under its control; “Women’s rights have disappeared completely, including access to education and rights issues have increased, such as alleged extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and detention, according to a UN report released in July.”
