America has abandoned its duty to protect democracy and human rights in Afghanistan, leaving its people to face a “bloody, brutal civil war”, General David Petraeus, the former US commander in the country, has told The Times.
As the Taliban lay siege to cities that British, American and other coalition troops died and were injured defending during 20 years of fighting, the architect of counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq highlighted the dangers of an Islamist takeover.
The last American soldier will leave Afghanistan by the end of this month and the fears of a Taliban takeover, voiced by Petraeus and other former western commanders, are becoming a reality. Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-biggest city, Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, and the western city
