A U.S. soldier fingerprints a man passing through a police checkpoint south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: Heidi Vogt/AP America’s war in Afghanistan is over! In a statement to the press on Dec. 28, U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed that after 13 years of bloody conflict, “the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible
The War Is Over, But Afghanistan Remains Shackled By Neo-Imperialism
“Afghanistan is no closer to controlling its institutions than Washington is to defeating terror. Afghans have inherited a disbanded mercenary army which the state cannot possibly maintain on its own,” a political analyst tells MintPress.