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By Medea Benjamin Aug. 15 marks the one-year anniversary of the return to Taliban rule in Afghanistan. It has been a disastrous year for the Afghan people. The Taliban rulers have reneged on their promises to respect women’s rights: They have barred secondary-school girls from public schools, dismissed women from many government jobs, forbade them from traveling alone and ordered women to dress in clothing that covers everything but their faces. The Taliban have also gone back on their promise to create a government inclusive of minority groups. They promised to grant amnesty to those who worked with the former government, but then killed or disappeared hundreds of former government officials and members of the Afghan security forces. And they promised not to harbor terrorists, but al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in a “safe house” in a toney neighborhood of Kabul until he was killed by a U.S. drone strike. How can we work with the Taliban, you ask? Not only are they misogynists and sectarian zealots, but they had been harboring one of the most wanted men on the planet. But intelligence analysts at the time of the U.S. withdrawal described al-Qaeda as “a skeleton of its former self” and the 71-year-old al-Zawahiri was no longer “the brains” of al-Qaeda but a figurehead. The real threat today is not al-Qaeda but the Islamic State-Khorasan (known as ISIS-K). As former CIA director General Petraeus told CNN, “They are the ones carrying out the most significant attacks in Afghanistan trying to foment a sectarian civil war.” ISIS-K was responsible for the horrific bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26 that killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members. It regularly targets minority groups, especially the Shiite Hazaras, and is thought to be responsible for thousands of deaths since it was formed in 2015. The Taliban have declared ISIS-K a corrupt “sect” and forbidden Afghans to deal with it. When the U.S. military was in Afghanistan, there was tacit collaboration with the Taliban to target ISIS-K. Right now, they are only able to carry out sporadic bombings but their goal is to take over the country and create an even more draconian Islamic State, plus they have transnational ambitions. As the economic situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen, impoverished men will be more and more enticed to join this bloodthirsty group, as will disenchanted members of the Taliban. That’s why, apart from humanitarian considerations, it’s in the U.S. interest to help the failing Afghan economy. The World Food Program said in July that nearly half the population is acutely food insecure and that Afghanistan continues to face “the highest prevalence of insufficient food consumption globally.” Many Afghans we met, even those who had supported the U.S. presence and detest the Taliban, saw the U.S. as responsible for the economic collapse. They said the U.S. created an economy totally dependent on outside funds, then not only stopped the flow of funds once the Taliban took over but also froze over $7 billion in Afghan Central Bank money that the previous government had parked at the U.S. Federal Reserve. They were particularly appalled that half those funds were now subject to a lawsuit by 9/11 families, even though none of the 9/11 hijackers were Afghans. But giving Afghans back their own money would help save the banking system from utter collapse, and filling in the missing $2 billion shortfall in the UN $4.4 billion emergency appeal would help feed millions of hungry Afghans. Let’s remember the dire consequences of previous U.S. actions. The U.S. helped create al-Qaeda when it funded the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. The U.S. invasion of Iraq, including the brutal treatment of Sunni Muslims, led to the creation of ISIS. Will we let the U.S. freezing of Afghan funds create an ISIS caliphate in Afghanistan? Medea Benjamin is one of the co-founders of CODEPINK and the organization Unfreeze Afghanistan. She was a member of the Women’s Peace and Education Delegation to Afghanistan in March.
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मेरो देशको अर्को पुस्तालाई अफ्गानिस्तानमा लड्न पठाउँदिन : बाइडेन काबुल- अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बाइडेनले अमेरिकाको अर्को पुस्तालाई अफगानिस्तानमा युद्ध गर्न नपठाउने बताएका छन् । बिहीबार राष्ट्रपति बाइडेनले अगस्ट ३१ सम्ममा सबै अमेरिकी सैनिकहरू अफगानिस्तानबाट फिर्ता भइसक्ने पनि जानकारी दिए । यसअघि उनले अमेरिकी सैनिकहरु सेप्टेम्बर ११ सम्ममा फिर्ता हुने योजना सुनाएका थिए । बाइडेनले अहिलेका लागि अफगानिस्तानबाट जतिसक्यो छिटो फर्किनु नै राम्रो हुने बताए । अहिलेसम्म अफगानिस्तानमा रहेका ९० प्रतिशत अमेरिकी सैनिक फर्किइसकेका छन् । अघिल्लो साता काबुलको उत्तरमा रहेको बगराम एयरबेस अमेरिकी सैनिकले अफगान समकक्षीलाई जानकारी नै नदिई राति नै छोडिदिएका थिए । ‘म अमेरिकाको अर्को पुस्तालाई अफगानिस्तानमा युद्ध गर्न पठाउँदिनँ,’ बाइडेनलले भनेका छन्,‘ हामी अफगानिस्तानमा राष्ट्र निर्माणका लागि गएका थिएनौं र, अब आफ्नो देश कसरी चलाउने भन्ने एक्लै निर्णय गर्ने अफगान जनताको अधिकार र जिम्मेवारी हो ।’ बाइडेनले अफगानिस्तानमा ज्यान गुमाउने र घाइते भएर स्वदेश फर्किने सैनिकहरूको प्रशंसा गरे । सन् २००१ सेप्टेम्बर ११ मा ट्वीन टावरमा आक्रमण भएपछि अमेरिकाले सोही वर्ष अफगानिस्तानमा सेना पठाएको थियो । २० वर्षमा २ हजार ४ सय ४८ जना अमेरिकी सैनिकले अफगानिस्तानमा ज्यान गुमाएका छन् भने २० हजार ७ सय २२ जना घाइते भएका छन् । मुस्लिम कट्टरपन्थी समूह तालिवानलाई पराजित नगरिकनै अमेरिकी र नाटो सैनिक फर्किन लागेपछि भूपरिवेष्ठित मुलुक अफगानिस्तानको भविष्य अन्यौलमा परेको छ । कतिपय विश्लेषकहरूले अब अफगानिस्तानमा गृहयुद्ध हुने चेतावनी दिएका छन् । अहिले विद्रोही तालिवान समूहले देशका झन्डै एक तिहाइ जिल्ला नियन्त्रणमा लिइसकेको छ । विदेशी फौजले अफगानिस्तान छोडेसँगै तालिवानहरूले आफ्नो भूभाग बढाइरहेका छन् भने शहरतिर अघि बढिरहेका छन् । पछिल्लो समय अफगान सुरक्षाकर्मीले तालिवानसामू आत्मसमर्पण गरिरहेका छन् भने केही भागेर छिमेकी ताजकिस्तान पुगेका छन् ।