The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was the inevitable consequence of the recent decision by U.S. President Joe Biden to abandon Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001, which killed about 3,000 people.
The absurdity of Biden’s decision was evident in the fact that at the time of the decision, the United States had only 2,500 troops left in the country. Yet this small number was sufficient to convince the Afghan Gover…
