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Twenty times agone, Australian forces followed the US into Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks with a simple charge to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership and remove the Taliban government that had sheltered them. That charge has ended in menial failure.
Its costs have been significant 41 combat- related deaths, 260 wounded, further than 500 expert self-murders, thousands tormented bypost-traumatic stress complaint (PTSD) and aroundA$ 10 billion expended with precious little to show for it.
Uruzgan Province, the centre of Australian operations from July 2006 until the main Australian Defence Force colors withdrew in December 2013, fell to the Taliban in early August with scarcely a shot fired. All those times spent equipping, training and mentoring the Afghan National Army to stand up and fight for the earnings made since 2001 had easily achieved nothing.
He wrote”Australian service officers are quick to list achievements by its development arm three times as numerous healthcare installations since 2006 and a rise in the number of seminaries from 34 in 2006 to 205 now. They’re emotional figures, but they do not tell the whole story. In Chora, only one of the 32 seminaries open actually has scholars attending … The rest are just for preceptors taking a payment (.)
