28 September 2021
Milley’s Failed Strategy
No wonder it took the U.S. twenty years to leave Afghanistan. Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley admitted today to the U.S. Congress that he, too, had been operating under a mistaken understanding of the true American objective for invading “the graveyard of empires.”
An Afghan business friend of mine told me that his nation is confident that the Taliban will run a government that is less corrupt and more popular with his compatriots than the leaders installed by the occupying Americans. Hopefully, under the watchful eye of the U.S. and its implicit threat of immediate military intervention should a terrorist group like Al Qaeda find shelter there again, the mission of preventing another 9/11 attack has been accomplished. Afghanistan conquest strategies like General Milley’s have always failed. Perhaps we have inadvertently done what realistically we could only do—keep America safe.
