Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Jeff Bezos. Owner of the Washington Post. Look at this Letter to the Editor he published on Afghanistan. Do you think he would publish my Letter to the Editor on Afghanistan? So, tell me, Jeff, since you think leaving Afghanistan is such a mistake and is going to lead to a humanitarian disaster, how about we send yours kids of draft age over there to fight? How about we keep the war going with them on the front line? No, you say? I didn't think so.  

 

Opinion: The mistake in leaving Afghanistan

Internally displaced Afghan families who fled their homes due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces take shelter in a public park in Kabul on Aug. 10. (Reuters)

Today at 4:58 p.m. EDT

Regarding the Aug. 9 front-page article “Taliban fighters overrun 3 cities”:

President Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan is a betrayal of the Afghan people. U.S. and NATO armed forces provided stability and a level of cohesion to the disparate Afghan groups and tribes and limited any impact the Taliban might have had in Afghanistan. With the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO armed forces, the Taliban will soon exert control over much or all of Afghanistan. Whatever gains women achieved will quickly erode.  

A State Department spokesperson tried to provide the rationale for the withdrawal of U.S. forces by suggesting that, even with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, things would not be so bad because the Taliban wished to play nice as they wanted to gain recognition and acceptance on the world stage. It is interesting that the president spoke of a young girl he met in Afghanistan who aspired to become a doctor, and he further remarked that now the young girl had every opportunity to accomplish this. If Mr. Biden truly believes that this will be possible under sharia law, he is either profoundly uninformed or delusional. 

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will be a humanitarian disaster. Mr. Biden’s decision to remove U.S. forces and the consequent fall of Afghanistan will forever blemish his time in office. He will be remembered as the president who handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban, betraying the Afghan people.

Edward V. Milton, Arlington