SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency) – Finally US is wrapping up its decade long war in Afghanistan. US invasion to Afghanistan has left number of important questions and the most important among them is that is US successful? And the answer is very clear that US failed to purge Afghanistan from terrorism. The revival of the Afghan Taliban as a powerful insurgent force that was apparently routed in 2001 should not come as a surprise. In fact, the radical group was never really defeated. Their fighters melted away into the population or took sanctuary across the border in Pakistan among their Pakhtun brethren. Most of the leadership had survived the offensive and also moved to Pakistan. It took less than two years for the Taliban leadership to recover and rebuild its structure. In June 2003, a 10-member leadership shura council was formed and given responsibility to formulate a political and military strategy for the resistance. The period from 2003 to 2005 was a turning point as the Taliban consolidated their organisational structure and expanded their activities. The challenges that confront the United States in Afghanistan now are remarkably similar to those faced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Now the American officials are reassessing their Afghan withdrawal plan. The Obama administration is already trying to build up bipartisan support for extending the presence of US forces beyond 2016. According to some reports, the Afghan army lost more than 17,000 troops and civilian employees as a result of desertions, combat deaths and discharges, leaving the force significantly weakened in the fight against the Taliban. Such attrition levels appear to be unsustainable. But it is not clear how slowing the drawdown could help stabilise the situation in Afghanistan, the goal that has remained elusive for more than one decade of conflict. It also raises questions about how the American wars of Afghanistan were fought without even an illusory victory.
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