Volume 9

America’s Longest War
- Ridhi Saini
The tension in Afghanistan has
spanned the administrations of
presidents George W. Bush, Barack
Obama, and Donald Trump.
A short period after Al Qaeda attacked
America on September 11; President
George W. Bush announced that
American forces had released assaults
towards the terrorist organization and
Taliban objectives in Afghanistan.
The President’s main aim was to
stop Taliban rule in Afghanistan and
forewarned that Operation Enduring
Freedom is going to be a prolonged
campaign.
Afghanistan were able to collapse the
Talibani rule, which was a significant
achievement.
The United States of America and
NATO were set to invest billions of
dollars to help a weak nation construct
the needed democratic rule and set
the pace with the western culture,
involving the start of education for all
genders and ages and further needed
development. Due to corruption and
America’s shifting focus towards Iraq
issues, these developments remained
restricted to the capital.
Due to this, many Taliban
troops evolved their
bases in Pakistan.
During this
transition,
American
troops in
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