U.S. Sees Afghanistan Accomplishments Crumble

Wall Street Journal: “After 20 years of war, much of what the U.S. sought to accomplish in Afghanistan crumbled in just one week.”

New York Times: “This implosion comes despite the United States having poured more than $83 billion in weapons, equipment and training into the country’s security forces over two decades.”

“Building the Afghan security apparatus was one of the key parts of the Obama administration’s strategy as it sought to find a way to hand over security and leave nearly a decade ago. These efforts produced an army modeled in the image of the United States’ military, an Afghan institution that was supposed to outlast the American war.”

“But it will likely be gone before the United States is.”