Berlin: Former US President George W.
Bush on Wednesday criticized the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and said civilians were abandoned for “slaughtered” by the Taliban.
“I am worried that Afghan women and women will suffer unsecured losses …
they will be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people and it destroys my heart,” Bush told German announcer Deutsche Welle.
Asked whether he thought the withdrawal was a mistake, Bush answered: “Yes, I think that.” Former President of the Republic, who sent troops to Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 after September 11 attacks at the New York World Trade Center, said he believed German Chancellor Angela Merkel “felt the same way”.
Bush said Merkel, who will retire from politics later this year after 16 years in power, has brought “class and dignity to a very important position and make a very difficult decision”.
US troops and NATO began to withdraw from Afghanistan in early May and would fully pull out on September 11, about 20 years after they arrived in a torn country war.
Most of the 2,500 US and 7,500 NATO soldiers were in Afghanistan when US President Joe Biden detailed the final withdrawal in April now left, leaving Afghan forces to fight the Taliban who was bold with military victory.
The country faces a crisis when rebels take regions throughout the countryside, stretch government forces and lead to fresh waves of families that are transferred internally, it is equal by the updated Covid-19 outbreak.
The United Nations said on Sunday that the conflict increased causing “more suffering” in all countries captured by violence as called sustainable financial assistance.
However, Biden insisted that it was time for us involvement in the war to end and for Afghans to map their own future.