The Taliban take their chance. Now or never.

 

Now or never! This seems to be the stance taken by the Taliban on seeing the American troops withdrawing from Afghanistan. It looks as though it was well planned earlier. Very well earlier! Otherwise, they could not taken the whole of Afghanistan at such a short period, without much resistance.

Actually, President Trump had the ball rolling on February 2020, in Doha, Qatar, when a peace deal and agreement on troop withdrawal was made with the Taliban. And, remember, the Taliban had insisted on a deadline of withdrawal by May 1, 2021. And President Trump did begin to withdraw the troops. Not all troops were withdrawn by May 2021. But credit to him, from 13,000, the number of troops remaining at the time of Biden was were 2,500. When President Joe Biden came into office, and later said he was withdrawing all the troops from Afghanistan, the media was wrongly accrediting him with the move – the decision to pull out the troops. That was Trump's triumph. Anyway, the Taliban were already well prepared since then,and were certain the final troop withdrawal was going to happen, and were waiting for it!

Poor Biden may have thought the Taliban will make some war moves in the way of conflicts and combats with the Afghanistan military. And American will, graciously, dispatch diplomats to mediate in the matter. But that was not to be. Biden did not realize that the Taliban would have, surely, thought of all these possibilities. And also failed to recognize that the Taliban would not have any of these. That was why he pulled the troops as he did, unintentionally, unknowingly but alarmingly, making the American supporters in Afghanistan running helter skelter, trying to get to the airport and leave their beloved land!

So there you are. Taliban are in full control of Afghanistan now. Only time will tell if this is for good or otherwise.

The world is in turmoil! Why?

 

What a disastrous situation the world is in now. It is in turmoil! Notwithstanding the atrocious, ravaging COVID- 19 pandemic that is creating a perplexing hair-pulling havoc to all the nations of the world, millions of the populace have to face the wrath of earth's other side – the ugly side! Draconian fires, typhoons and thunderstorms, devastating floods, landslides, earthquakes, unbearable heat waves! You name it , the world is providing them to us free! At the moment, the receivers of these unrequested and undesirable free offers are our comrades in Turkey, N.. America, N. Africa, Italy,Greece. India, China, Bangladesh, Iran. Haiti...the list goes on....My heart feels for them. I pray their sufferings and agony do not prolong.

Hopefully, we, human beings, do not add to these catastrophic calamities in the ways of mob rules, violent rallies and protests, skirmish battles and wars. 

Enough is enough. We have had it our way for all too long. Now God seems to be having it his way!