Link to article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-afhganistan\/u-s-should-delay-complete-troop-pullout-in-afghanistan-report-to-congress-idUSKBN2A32VU <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An independent bipartisan group lead by retired Marine General Joseph Dunford and former Senator Kelly Ayotte reported to Congress yesterday that the United States should extend the upcoming May 1, 2021 planned removal of all troops from Afghanistan as agreed upon in a February 2020 U.S. Taliban agreement. The group also stated that the U.S. should also force cuts contingent on the progress with the peace talks along with the Taliban to reduce violence and containing al Qaeda and should include the Afghan government for a mutually agreed settlement. It is believed that if American troops are removed from Afghanistan in an agreement made by President Trump, that it will lead to civil war and al Qaeda will gain strength again. The report has been shared with President Biden. The State Department has stated that the Biden Administration \u201cplans to support\u201d the peace process in Afghanistan. However, the Taliban has stated that al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan and the Taliban will resume their attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan if they are not removed by the May 1, 2021 deadline. The report also states that extending the time for the U.S. Troops would further reduce violence and allow for Washington to restructure U.S. civilian aid help advance women\u2019s and minority rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the plans to help support the minorities and aid in advancing their women\u2019s rights movement, it may be a better plan to do as much as possible to further their support and leave before the May 1st<\/sup> deadline, so the American troops are not in harms way. If the U.S. decided to prolong their stay, the Taliban has promised to attack, and any retaliation could spark a war. A war could diminish our peace, especially since we are still in the midst of a pandemic, COVID-19 on the battlefield could be weaponized to weaken either side. We should work to ensure peace with the Middle Eastern countries without the need of our troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, removal of the troops from Afghanistan could destabilize the region and throw the area into another war further causing harm to the people of the region and increasing the terrorist threat at both home and abroad. Increased violence in the region could also impact the production of oil driving up the price of gas and products globally. Mass inflation would push a global recession to an economy already damaged by Covid. Al Qaeda is not a force to be handled lightly. If al Qaeda regains strength and begins it\u2019s reign of terror again, the world will need to join forces to not only battle Covid, but also terrorism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Link to article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-afhganistan\/u-s-should-delay-complete-troop-pullout-in-afghanistan-report-to-congress-idUSKBN2A32VU An independent bipartisan group lead by retired Marine General Joseph Dunford and former Senator Kelly Ayotte reported to Congress yesterday that the United States should extend the upcoming May 1, 2021 planned removal of all troops from Afghanistan as agreed upon in a February 2020 U.S. Taliban agreement. The group also stated that the U.S. should… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}