Not to excuse America’s stupidity here, but The Afghan security forces who, despite massively outnumbering the Taliban, having years of training and sophisticated American weapons/resources/helicopters/etc took off their uniforms and surrendered within minutes to the Taliban…
— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) August 15, 2021
…you want to see ultimately has to come from the Afghans, and they clearly don’t seem to have an interest in it. Who will pay for this? Young Afghan girls who will be ripped from their schools and forcibly married to Taliban soldiers.
There is no silver lining.
— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) August 15, 2021