This refers to the crisis in Afghanistan and the recently held Afghanistan Conference at London. After nine years of bloodshed by the NATO forces, the Obama administration is giving cosmetic touch to things in Afghanistan to avoid embarrassment. Sending more NATO troops to the country will only add fuel to the fire. According to the 'National Priorities Project’ calculations the Afgan war has cost 228.2 billion dollars. Such a big amount was wasted just to accomplish the genocide of millions of civilians. The recent conference concentrated on 'Taliban Profiling'. They only wanted to divide the Taliban by calling them “good” or “bad.” This is no solution to such an intricate problem because Taliban are not commodities to be bought in market. The US dream of Liberal Democracy in Kabul in only a nightmare.  The US should know that Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires". Let us hope that Obama would learn a lesson from its nine years of bitter experience in Afghanistan and would not repeat such a mistake in any other part of world. Let they withdraw from Afghanistan as soon as possible.
Irfan Majid
Political Science Student
Uri

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