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By Francis A. Boyle | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-08 07:29 Share CLOSE Photo taken on Jan 23, 2018 shows a Black Hawk helicopter during a handover ceremony between the US forces and the Afghan air force in Kandahar province, south Afghanistan. [Photo/Xinhua]
The United States has started the final troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, and has pledged to complete the process by September this year.
Be that as it may, the US war against Afghanistan cannot be justified on either facts, a paucity of which have been offered, or the law, either domestic or international. Rather, it is an illegal armed aggression that has created a humanitarian catastrophe for the 22 million people of Afghanistan and has been promoting terrible regional instability.
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Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
With a few notable exceptions and caveats, President Joe Biden has been keeping his campaign promise to wind down America’s “forever wars” the open-ended counterterrorist campaign the U.S. has been fighting around the globe for the past 20 years.
Most dramatically, Biden announced the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11. While this is a somewhat slower timeline than the May 1 withdrawal originally agreed to by Donald Trump, it nonetheless will represent the end of America’s longest war, and the announcement showed Biden’s determination to act despite some significant political, military, and humanitarian risks.
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