This is How Clinton, Bush and Obama Formulated Their Policy to Destroy Afghanistan
Campaign to support Afghan refugees launched by former US presidents, Bill Clinton, George Bush (Jr.) and Barack Obama, it left several paradoxes between the alleged peace songs and a recent bloody history, each of them had written it down separately and in his own way, and all of them participated in writing the tragic situation in Afghanistan.
When former US President Bill Clinton launched “Operation Infinite Reach” in 1998 by directing strikes with high-precision cruise missiles against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. It seemed that Washington was determined to play a deeper role inside Afghanistan, and that the winds of the great war are inevitably coming.
It took a few years, specifically on October 7, 2001, with the then US President George Bush (Jr.) declaring war on Afghanistan, under the name of “Operation Enduring Freedom”, after fierce battles, horrific bombardment, and the deaths of thousands of civilians, the coalition forces entered the country, overran the capital, Kabul, and removed the Taliban from power, and heralded a new era of prosperity and democracy, after years of blood and tears.
But the blitzkrieg was nothing but a quagmire that lasted for “19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days” as the longest war fought by Washington in its history, bypassing the disastrous Vietnam War, not much has changed in the country of the Pashtun tribes except for more ruin and destruction.
“Welcome to the United States”
On September 15, 2021, and for days, an aid campaign for Afghan refugees was launched inside the United States, which was issued by senior politicians, including the former presidents of the White House, Clinton, Bush (Jr.) and Obama, who united with their wives under the cover of the “Welcome to the United States” coalition, it is a coalition of American advocacy groups, businessmen and other leaders.
They agreed to help Afghan refugees who came to the United States after the American withdrawal from their country after a 20-year war.
“Thousands of Afghans have stood with us on the front line to push for a safer world, and now they need our help,” Bush and his wife, Laura, announced in a statement.
At a media event, former Bush administration official, John Bridgeland, said: “The campaign launched a website that makes it easier for Americans to donate or host refugee families through the Airbnb application for renting homes or through any other means of assistance.”
There is no doubt that Bush, who is currently active, is the same president whose name is associated with the beginning of the war on Afghanistan, and who launched the spark that burned green and dry.
Following the recent US withdrawal, it is estimated that as many as 50,000 Afghan refugees are languishing in military bases in the United States, others are still in existing centers near American airports where they landed. There are more refugees in private care facilities, or on the borders of scattered countries between Central and West Asia, and all of them have the tragedy of the diaspora written on them.
However, they did not teach the godfathers of the American war on Afghanistan that brute force came to a real tragic end, and that history will continue to remember them, and how they referred the sick country to a fragile entity and disputed by differences.
First Strike
Beginning with the owner of the first military strike on Afghanistan, former President Bill Clinton, he launched a retaliatory attack on Afghanistan and Sudan, as a result of the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Clinton announced his military “Operation Infinite Reach,” and according to it, American fighters bombed about 75 cruise missiles on Afghan targets, under the pretext that they were Al-Qaeda camps.
According to the Afghan press, about 20 Afghan civilians were killed in the attack.
The United Nations, through its Secretary-General Kofi Annan at that time, expressed its concern about these developments.
Even Cuba, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, declared that “President Clinton ignored the sovereignty of Sudan and Afghanistan, and he launched a theatrical bombardment to cover up his recent sexual scandal.”
As for the most dangerous statements, they were issued by the then Vice President of Chechnya, Vaka Arzhanova. He declared that “by attacking Afghanistan, the United States launched an undeclared World War III.”
As his vision became clear later, the American strikes on Afghanistan were nothing but a prelude to a major battle, and many years of battles that the Pentagon will enter in that country will lead to one of the world's worst disasters, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions of Afghans.
Hell of War
On September 23, 2001, just eight months after entering the White House, former President George W. Bush (Jr.) stood before Congress, his famous speech said: “Our war begins and will not end. Americans should not expect a single battle, but an unprecedented campaign.”
He went even further with his famous statement, “Countries that are not with the United States are against it.”
As the International Unit of the Swiss Radio and Television reported in its report on the US-Afghan war, “Never in the history of the United States has an American president obtained from Congress the absolute power and authority to wage war so quickly, as if the war scenario was ready in the corridors of the Pentagon.”
On October 7, 2001, the American offensive began under the name of “Operation Enduring Freedom.” The coalition forces entered the capital, Kabul, and aimed to completely eradicate the Taliban and completely eliminate Al-Qaeda. It was a goal that never happened.
Rather, it was the beginning of a long-running guerrilla war, for which the Afghan people alone paid the price.
When Bush left office in 2009, Afghanistan's resources were exhausted, and while there were about 30,000 American soldiers in addition to tens of thousands of the coalition forces (ISAF), the Taliban was continuing its war and regaining the villages, and it was not crushed, only those who crushed the general population.
As confirmed by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on March 5, 2020, acknowledging the investigation of war crimes in Afghanistan, which includes accusations against the American forces present there, this means that the American war was an invasion targeting all Afghans.
Broke His Promises
Democrat Barack Obama inherited from Bush a complicated and turbulent situation in Afghanistan, as part of his presidential campaign.
He promised to completely withdraw from the presidential elections; but he broke his promise and never kept it.
On December 17, 2009, Obama announced what he called “the new strategy in Afghanistan”, which requires an increase in the number of US forces to deal a decisive and final strike to the Taliban, it is then possible to negotiate an exit from the standpoint of force, according to Obama's vision.
That plan was to Americanize war more than ever, and that the American army will spread more heavily, and deal heavier strikes, indeed, the US President ordered his generals to deploy tens of thousands of additional soldiers in this country, and the number of US forces there in mid-2010 reached more than 100,000 soldiers.
This strategy only increased the intensity of the battles, although he succeeded in eliminating al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; but all his attempts to eliminate the Taliban also failed.
As his term came to an end, Obama realized that the weak security situation would not allow the American withdrawal he had hoped for.
Obama left office while tens of thousands of his soldiers are in Afghanistan. He failed in his strategy, broke his promises, and Afghanistan continued to deteriorate and collapse.
After two decades of war, the American forces left Afghanistan, which was described as a quagmire for its opponents.
The Taliban returned to Kabul again, after waging a war against the government forces of the US-backed Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, who fled.
Wherever American planes were flying towards its country, announcing the failure of all the previous presidents and godfathers of that war, the Taliban's armies entered Kabul again, as if time had stopped, and only those toiling amongst all Afghans had passed.
