Excerpts from an article by Muhittin Ataman in today’s Daily Sabah of Turkey.
Who is responsible for the chaos in Afghanistan?
Afghan territories served as a buffer zone between the British Empire and the Czarist Russia during the last quarter of the 1800s. To put it correctly, modern Afghanistan is an artificial creation of the British, which drew artificial boundaries.
The Afghan state is composed of many divided ethnic groups such as Pashtun, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek and Hazaras. Every ethnic group that makes up the Afghan state has relatives in neighboring countries. Even Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, were divided with half of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and the other half in Pakistan.
Afghanistan hosted a proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. did not hesitate to support “Mujahideen” in Afghanistan in their fight against the “communist” Russians.
Many claim that the real objective of the U.S. is to create proxy actors in the country. Even if it withdraws its troops from the country, its proxy actors will continue to pursue its national interests….
It is estimated that more than 300,000 militias have been working for the U.S. In other words, the loyalty of these recruited persons is not to their tribes or other institutions, including the government, but to the U.S.
[G]lobal powers will continue to play the great game at the expense of the Afghan people. In addition, the civil war and chaos in Afghanistan will cause political instability in its region, including Central Asian republics.
Anti-bellum 
When the Pentagon speculated the Afghan govt. could fall 6 to 9 months after the US troop drawdown, remembering Viet Nam I thought to myself ” more like 6 to 9 days”. How can the Pentagon with its limitless budgets and intelligence gathering resources be so out of touch with the reality on the ground. When the Finance Minister resigns and leaves the country how can the army expect to be resupplied with ammunition, fuel, food, medical supplies and replacements, let alone be paid? If the US can’t defeat the Taliban how can it hope to defeat China or Russia or even North Korea? The US is a paper tiger drowning in debt, a decadent nation trying desperately to relive the victories of World War 2. Instead of nation building it has become a nation wrecker, terrorizing innocent civilians and leaving them to fend for themselves as refugees.. Meanwhile the Pentagon turns it attention to “new” threats undaunted by a string of defeats and legacy of failed states. Is this some new form of collective national suicide?
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