A Fear Of 'Full-Scale Civil War' In Afghanistan Looms

As American troops leave Afghanistan, President Biden has few policy options for the region, according to the Washington Post's David Ignatius.

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[teresagunn]

Afghanistan Government is responsible for their country not the USA time for their government to govern their country STEP UP!

[loveyourcountrynotyourpart]

Well if we couldn't find a solution by now, it is time to leave. We can't stay there for ever.

[ja]

Forget about Afghanistan, I fear this for the old U.S. of A.

[dementeduncle]

This is why Afghanistan can't have nice things....

[jdwfenton]

I'm more concerned about the civil war coming in the USA.

[gilmoremccoy]

So what? We occupy them indefinitely, fact

[derng]

After 20 years and 4 trillion dollars, this is the best the US can do?

[hamzaabbasi]

🙂
David you are comparing Syria and Afghanistan. ISIS and Taliban???
For God sake David.

[jssandler]

We have no clear mission in Afghanistan. No clear objective. Most US citizens want out. 20 years, nothing to show for it. It's time to leave. And staying longer is merely throwing good money after bad. They need to work their own country out and so do we.

[tidbit]

We should have kept the troops in. What difference does it make to keep 3-6 thousand US troops there? We have 30k in Bahrain, 30k in South Korea, 30k in Japan, 30k in Germany, 30k in Okinawa, and thousands more in Guam, on another island in the Indian Ocean, and thousands more stationed throughout the world. Plus it's cheaper to station the troops abroad then at home. So why not keep them in Afghanistan. We were only losing about 20 troops per year; that's a f*cking bargain for the peace, security, and human rights of 34million Afghan civilians. If you wont fight for what you believe in then maybe you don't really believe in it(human rights, democracy, and freedom)!

[amjadkhan-qyny]

this is not a civil war this is Pakistani ISI under Taliban name fighting

[rebeccadesrochers]

My heart bleeds for the everyday citizen cop n these war torn countries. We had no right to have been party to this distruction

[PatrickWilliamsI]

The black dude on the panel: "That's all of your meddling, trifling Imperialistic problems, my concerns are right here at home". Well that's what he wanted to say but didn't 😎.

[pakpala]

Tell the US Senate to vote for voting rights., police reform, healthcare for all, free college education, universal gun background checks and stop this talk about Afghanistan...

[michaelshigetani]

There was no solution to Afghanisstan. We could have stayed there for a hundred years, and this STILL would have happened the second we left. We could not "win" Afghanistan. We simply cannot help.

[mikeaskme]

If a Civil War happens in Afghanistan let it happen it is none of our business, if Afghans allow Isis to come in again none of our business. However if any terrorist attacks are planned launched from Afghanistan then it becomes our problem and we should go in solve the problem and get out, we need to stop expecting others to live how we live.

[christinanelson]

Jonathan Swan is the most refreshing journalist to listen to.

[kristenrdesinski]

Trump declared that all troops would be out of Afghanistan in May of this year, Biden managed to extend that to Sept. After Trump refusing to honor arrangements made by former presidents, it was important for Biden not to do the same thing if it was something the the people wanted. I don't like the Taliban being able to take over after so long of fighting and training troops to defend their own country, but the government of Afghanistan is failing to defend their people from the Taliban. Is this the right move? I don't know.

[benjamindemontgomery]

Pull out se what happens. Its a bit like the arctic geese chicks that jump of a cliff. some times they die and sometimes they survive.

[meemeechern]

It was Obama’s masterpiece to direct our troops to Afghanistan; Yet, no one dared to criticise Obama the historical mistake he made.