It’s been six years since the 9/11-terror incident propelled the war on terror. It’s been six years since the US-led NATO forces entered into Afghanistan to avenge the World Trade Center terror attacks. It’s been six years since blood started spilling in Afghanistan under the barrel of gun. It’s been six years since the Afghans didn’t have a good night’s sleep. Is it for this that the US invaded Afghanistan? The war on terror has dragged for six years and is into its seventh year, however, there is no report of the WTC terror attack mastermind Bin Laden, and even the Taliban is showing extremely dangerous signs of rising to power once again.
The Taliban never said die and seems to be fast grappling Afghanistan, a land that it forcefully ruled before the US-led NATO forces invaded and forced them to retreat. However, neither the Taliban has given up fighting for the land nor the American forces seem to be relenting. The ones suffering in the midst of all this trouble, turmoil, and shattered economy are the innocent Afghans, who have not seen a day of peace for a long long time.
The US invaded Afghanistan to throw the Taliban and nip the terror tree in its bud, however, only God knows how long this war will continue and whether the US will succeed or the Taliban have the upper hand. It is quite disheartening to see the troubled Afghans crying for basic amenities of life, perhaps they are all the time under the shadow of death that might come to them in the form of either a suicide bombing, pillage or plunder by the terrorists or the army invasion into their houses and shops. Thousands have died, innumerable maimed, and countless lost in this so-called war on terror. It is quite sad to note that the war is soon going to take a severe turn in the once peaceful land that was invaded for power and the invasion doesn’t show any signs to cool down.
As for now, I don’t see either the war ending or the Taliban giving up. The Taliban, on a killing spree, has taken vast majority of areas of the tribal belt of Afghanistan, and if the plunder continues who knows it will once again rule Afghanistan and the rein of terror befall on the poor Afghans. No foreign aid will help the Afghans come to terms of the tragedy that has engulfed them unless terrorism is uprooted and the forces leave the country. Will that day come? Alas! No signs as for now.
Source: USA Today
