There is No “Black and White” in Afghanistan
Can the Taliban’s rise to power be considered a victory of the Afghan people over the US or a victory of the Islamic struggle in toppling the secular liberal regime?
In this image courtesy of the US Central Command Public Affairs, Red Cross members handout aid to Afghan evacuees at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on August 21, 2021. - US aircraft flew about 6,000 people, including a couple of hundred US citizens, out of Kabul in the 24 hours to early August 20, until flights had to be halted because of a lack of space at transit bases. Officials confirmed that evacuation operations stalled for several hours on Friday because a receiving base in Qatar was overflowing and could not take any more evacuees.
"Everything is expensive here. There is only one cheap thing: human life,” an Afghan once told me about their country\'s situation.
As a journalist who was on duty in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009, I experienced such a situation myself. In Kabul, bombs went off at least once every two days. People were gripped by terror amid showers of rockets, robbery, kidnapping and murder.