In the end, what was it all for?
Londonderry, N.H.: To quote from my letter of May 29, which was written in late April, “The planned withdrawal of all U.S. and European troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, will probably allow the Taliban to reconquer Afghanistan and establish terrorist organizations devoted to attacking the United States.” We lost almost 2,400 Americans killed and spent more than $2 trillion in Afghanistan during the past 20 years.
The Taliban and their allied terrorist organizations have a vast base of operations to plan and support terrorist attacks against the world. They now have the economic base of an entire country to finance their terrorist plots and activities, and the terrorists have acquired large amounts of military equipment we furnished to the Afghan military.
We have outfitted an enemy with our own military equipment that they can use against us. Although Afghanistan is geographically isolated from us, it borders Iran to the west, and I am sure Iran will be acquiring some of our modern military equipment from Afghanistan for future use.
We should have disabling software in the computer modules in the equipment we provide to foreign countries so we can electronically disable the equipment if it falls into adversarial hands.
As soon as our diplomats, other U.S. citizens and our military are out of Afghanistan, we should inform the Taliban that we are prepared to launch a pinpointed missile campaign and special operations against specific personnel and structures to thwart any Taliban attacks against the United States.
Donald Moskowitz