A year ago, the curtain fell on the war in Afghanistan, the longest in American history. The last US troops left Kabul on August 30, 2021, one day ahead of the August 31 deadline. The fear of new attacks by the Isis-K jihadists, who were alarmed to the last by the Pentagon, which had spoken of “real” and “concrete” threats from further terrorist attacks, is too great. “Not a single American soldier is left in Afghanistan. The withdrawal marks both the end of the evacuation of military equipment and the end of a nearly 20-year mission that began shortly after 9/11,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie announced a year ago. Chief of US Central Command.
“It’s a mission that brought Osama bin Laden to justice along with many al-Qaeda conspirators,” he continued. “The cost was 2,461 US service members and civilians killed and over 20,000 wounded, including sadly the 13 Marines who died last week,” McKenzie added, specifying that the latest to leave Afghan soil were the ambassador and a general. Immediately after the Pentagon’s announcement, shots were heard in Kabul to celebrate the departure of the last US flight. The shots came in particular from the main Taliban checkpoints, while cheers rang out from positions in the former green zone. “We made history again,” Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban militia leader, said on Twitter.
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