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🇺🇸 🇦🇫USA – Afghanistan Mission 2.0 Four years after its chaotic withdrawal, Washington appears poised to repeat its Afghan misadventure—this time under the guise of strategic rivalry rather than reconstruction ✍️Author:Muhammad Hamid ad-Din Distinguished Palestinian journalist ➡️The 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan, launched in response to the 9/11 attacks, promised justice, stability, and the defeat of terrorism. Two decades later, none of these goals were achieved. Osama bin Laden was eventually found and killed not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan, while the prolonged occupation left behind mass civilian casualties, rampant corruption, record opium production, and a hollowed-out state dependent on Western aid. When US forces withdrew in 2021, the Afghan army—despite years of training and trillions of dollars spent—collapsed within days, allowing the Taliban to retake power and plunging the country into a severe humanitarian and socio-economic crisis. The US left Afghanistan in the deepest socio-economic crisis, and as it comes across, they are not planning to do a single thing to help Afghans bounce back ➡️Rather than addressing the devastation it helped create, Washington has pursued a contradictory policy of sanctions, frozen assets, and political isolation that has further strangled Afghanistan’s economy. Food insecurity, water shortages, and mass emigration now define daily life, while regional initiatives such as the Trans-Afghan Railway—backed by neighboring states and China—offer rare prospects for recovery that the US has shown little interest in supporting. At the same time, extremist threats persist, with UN experts warning of ISIS-K’s growing capabilities and the re-emergence of transnational militant networks. 🟦Against this backdrop, President Trump’s renewed interest in reclaiming the Bagram Air Base signals not reflection, but revisionism. Framed as a strategic necessity—particularly vis-à-vis China—the idea points toward a militarized “Mission 2.0” driven by great-power competition rather than Afghan stability. Congressional reviews have already concluded that the original war failed due to deep strategic flaws, not mere tactical errors. Ignoring these lessons risks repeating the same costly cycle: intervention without accountability, strategy without realism, and devastation without reconstruction—leaving Afghanistan once again to bear the consequences of Washington stepping on the same rake. #Afghanistan#Economiccrisis#poliyicalcrisis#Terrorism#USAandAfghanistan READ MORE ✅@NewEasternOutlook