July 2, 2021

The US and its allies in NATO came to Afghanistan in the name of fighting terrorism and extremism and to bring stability to Afghanistan, but are leaving nearly 20 years later after they failed at both and with an attempt to shift the burden to the Afghan people, Afghanistan's former president Hamid Karzai said. 

In an exclusive interview with the Global Times, Karzai said the US and its allies cannot be absolved of their responsibilities in Afghanistan. US President Joe Biden said on June 25 that Afghans "are going to have to decide their future" as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited the White House. The former president agreed that it is the responsibility of the Afghan people to provide security for their country and to unite in the name of peace, but "it is also the responsibility of those countries, especially the United States, who came into Afghanistan in the name of bringing peace and stability."

US President Joe Biden declared in April that he would withdraw the remaining US troops from the "forever war" in Afghanistan, saying the US has long ago accomplished its main mission of denying terrorists a haven in the country. But the former Afghan president said "it's clearly turning out that the United States has failed." "Not only did stability not come, conflict did not end, and new terrorist groups emerged," Karzai noted. 

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