OP-ED: On the verge of collapse

Is Afghanistan really a better country now than it was in 2001?

In April of this year, US President Joe Biden announced that about 2,500 to 3,500 US troops still in Afghanistan would return to the country by September 11. Britain made the same announcement. They also pledged to withdraw the remaining 650 troops from Afghanistan within the same period.

In the meantime, US troops have left their key military air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, in the dead of night without informing the Afghan authorities. The new Afghan commander in Bagram, General Asadullah Kohistani, told the BBC that the Americans had left at around 3AM. The Afghan military found out hours after they left.