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Faizel Patel – 28/08/2021
A marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War and senior editor of Veterans Today says the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan was twenty-years too late.
Gordon Duff was speaking to Radio Islam live from the US following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
The Taliban dealt a humiliating blow to the US and its allies, snatching a military victory that saw the movement capture all cities including Kabul in just 10 days.
The Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid during a press briefing last week said the movement is not going to take revenge on anybody or any country including the US and is planning an inclusive caretaker government in Afghanistan.
Duff says US President Joe Biden had to withdraw troops from the country.
“It was twenty-years too late if anything. It’s like pulling a bandage off, it’s going to be messy. Thirteen dead Americans and an awful lot more local people, a hundred or more that died from the ISIS bombing yesterday.”
Duff says ISIS which carried out the deadly attack at the Kabul Airport was “planted” in Afghanistan bi the CIA.
“The Iranian obviously didn’t help them and they didn’t take a boat. They had to have flown and the only people that could have helped them do that were NATO people, MI6, maybe Indian intelligence RAW (Research Intelligence Wing) working with the CIA, but planting ISIS in Afghanistan is a CIA ploy supposedly to offset the Taliban.”
Duff says there is going to be a continued drone war by the US after the Kabul attack.
“If that drone war continues, that drone war no matter who’s running it, Biden or Trump or anyone, that drone war is going to kill lots and lots of civilians. It’s still going to kill civilians because the United States is just not very good at gaining intelligence or hiring anyone but criminal sociopaths as drone pilots.”
Duff says the Kabul Airport attack in which more than 100 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S. service members and 90 Afghans, is going to turnout huge amounts of funding for American corporations
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