NATO's End In Afghanistan And The Achievements: Failed In Achieving Its Objectives
20 November 2014
By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
NATO:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the
North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental
military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization
constitutes a system of collective defense. NATO's
headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28
member states across North America and Europe, the
newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April
2009. An additional 22 countries participate in NATO's
Partnership, with 15 other countries involved in
institutionalized dialogue programs. The combined
military spending of all NATO members constitutes over
70 percent of the global total.
NATO in
Afghanistan a brief Summary:
After the US led invasion of Afghanistan Since August
2003, the NATO-led International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) has been conducting security operations,
while also training and developing the Afghan National
Security Forces (ANSF).On 16 April 2003, NATO agreed
to take command of the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF), which includes troops from 42
countries. At the end of 2014, ISAF will complete its
mission, as planned and agreed with the Afghan
authorities. In 2011, as agreed with the installed
puppet Afghan authorities, a process of transition of
full security responsibility to the Afghan security
forces and institutions was launched. That process has
been implemented as scheduled and is due to be
completed at the end of 2014, when ISAF's mission will
end as NATO troops are due to withdraw from
Afghanistan by 31 December 2014. From a peak of around
140,000 in 2011, the force will shrink to 12,000
soldiers. It would be a challenge for any leader:
balance the books after years of systemic corruption,
battle a resurgent rebellion for independence.
The withdrawal of most NATO troops has triggered
questions about the achievements of a military mission
that cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives,
including thousands of American, British and other
western country's soldiers. What will happen when the
troops – and their dollars – depart?
NATO failed in achieving its objectives:
NATO's primary objective in Afghanistan was to enable
the installed Afghan authorities to provide effective
security across the country for their interest and the
puppet regime against the popular independence
rebellion by the freedom fighters, labeled as Taliban
by the media.
NATO has failed in its primary objective in
Afghanistan and apart from the city centers and the
main capital government has no control in Afghanistan.
The popular rebellion is gaining ground and there is
vast support for the war against the invaders. The
situation currently is a resilient rebellion, rampant
corruption and a weak government. On the security
front, the entire NATO exercise was one that caused
Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life
and no gains.
Only one month before the scheduled pullout of
international troops, most experts agree the results
are mixed to null for the NATO led ISAF.
Both the high human and monetary cost of the NATO-led
ISAF mission have led many to raise questions about
the purpose and achievements of the military
intervention, with innocent Muslim civilians
increasingly bearing the brunt of the conflict.
During the 13 years ISAF military casualties and the
civilian casualties caused by ISAF and Coalition/ISAF
became a major political issue both in Afghanistan and
in the troop contributing nations.
The United States, which provides the bulk of NATO
troops in Afghanistan, has poured some $61 billion
into training a nascent 350,000- security force,
seeing it as the lynchpin of a plan to exit its
longest war while the Taliban onslaught has killed
more than 4,600 Afghan security force members already
this year.
Incidents in recent days illustrate how Afghan puppet
regime forces will struggle with reduced Western
support, particularly from the air.
When Taliban attacked a foreign guest house in central
Kabul last Thursday, Afghan commandos killed the
attackers, but international helicopters and Special
Forces helped in the mop-up operation that lasted
hours.
Taliban fighters also entered Camp Bastion, a large
base in the southern Helmand province handed over to
Afghan troops a month ago by the withdrawing U.S. and
British forces. It took Afghan soldiers three days to
regain control.
After 13 years of NATO struggle for their puppet
installed mafia style government the puppet Afghan
government is seen as rapacious, abusive, and
exclusionary by the common Afghans. Corruption is
still rampant at all levels of the state apparatus,
including in the government which has suffered a
legitimacy crisis after allegations of widespread
fraud during the fake 2009 elections and the fake 2013
elections.
The analysts currently monitoring Afghanistan
indicates that the extensive casualties and logistical
problems suffered by Afghan troops have proved that
they are very weak are not resilient in tactical
fighting against the Taliban. The puppet Afghan forces
remain deeply troubled as they continue to be
afflicted by drug abuse, illiteracy, desertions and
combat-related incapacities.
NATO has failed in Afghanistan pretending to have
succeeded but that's just camouflage to disguise what
is in fact an embarrassing if predictable defeat.
NATO troops in Afghanistan are in a similar situation
like the Soviet invaders. As combat troops leave
Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the country will again
be left "with a severely damaged and very weak
economic base", reliant for years on vast sums of
international aid which solidify the statement the
NATO has failed in Afghanistan collectively and
institutionally.