" when witnesses described a band of soldiers descending on the village to carry out this atrocity.
And yet here we are, 20 years later: The American public is still bewildered by this conflict and why the country they tried to save from the clutches of savage bearded men succumbed to them anyway.I was born in Afghanistan amid a civil war. My family left when I was two years old and settled in Germany. I have lived most of my life away from my homeland, but still have family there and feel very connected with my roots.
As the Taliban have seized power, a series of condescending op-eds have blamed Afghans for the outcome of a war they did not want while absolving the US and its allies of wrongdoing. President Joe Biden recently,"We gave the Afghans every chance. But we couldn't provide them the will to fight for their future."
Afghans have fought off all the greats with fervor: Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and the USSR. One million Afghans died in the Soviet conflict alone.
PointChaser Sad truth, they killed a lot of civilians there
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