US Didnt Spend 20 Years Replacing Taliban with Taliban
“The U.S. spent 20 years and trillions of dollars replacing the Taliban with the Taliban. Trump replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei in just 9 day”
Summary
The United States spent about $1.6‑$2.3 trillion over the 20‑year Afghanistan conflict, but the war did not simply replace the Taliban with the Taliban; the Taliban remained a resilient insurgency that eventually reclaimed power. There is no credible evidence that President Trump replaced Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei with anyone, and Arabic‑language outlets only reported unverified rumors of an assassination, not an actual replacement.
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- Afghanistan: Background and U.S. Policy In Brief | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
In the subsequent 20 years, the United States and its allies suffered thousands of military casualties in Afghanistan, mostly at the hands of a resilient Taliban insurgency, and Congress appropriated over $146 billion for reconstruction efforts.
- THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S AFGHANISTAN POLICY | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
And as Ambassador Crocker has assessed, and I have visited with him many times in Afghanistan, when he said that, quote, ``The Taliban will offer any number of commitments, knowing that when we were gone and the Taliban is back, we will have no means of enforcing any of them.'' We must also avoid the same mistake President Obama made in Iraq by withdrawing all of our troops for the purposes of preventing another 9/11 style attack on our homeland.
- EXAMINING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY, PART 2 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Despite multiple indications that the Taliban had not fully met their commitments under the February agreement, the Trump administration has steadily withdrawn U.S. forces from Afghanistan, which has seated much of our leverage to help shape ...
- Estimated Cost to Each US Taxpayer of Each of the Wars in ...
Estimated Cost to Each U.S. Taxpayer of Each of the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria ... 5/ Reflects estimated obligations by the fiscal year incurred from 2001‐2021.
- The War In Afghanistan | George W. Bush Library
The war cost the United States $2.3 trillion. At least 46,000 Afghan civilians and 70,000 military and law enforcement personnel, as well as numerous enemy combatants, died in the conflict. The following carefully selected resources, some of which are from the George W. Bush Presidential Library, ...
- September 9, 2024 Dear Democratic Members of the Committee:
Taliban compliance with the Doha Deal. This emboldened the Taliban and undermined U.S. and · Afghan government leverage. Testimony from 13 witnesses supports this finding, contrary to the · claim that President Trump adhered to a conditions-based approach.16
- PolitiFact | Did the U.S. spend $2 trillion to support the Afghan military?
The Defense Department spent more than $1.6 trillion between 2001 and March 2021, said Christopher Sherwood, a public affairs specialist with the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
- What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan? - The New York Times
Drawing on estimates from Brown University’s Costs of War Project, we assessed how much the United States spent on different aspects of the war and whether that spending achieved its aims. ... District, Dec. 2019 ... District, Dec. 2019 ... When President George W. Bush announced the first military action in Afghanistan in the wake of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda in 2001, he said the goal was to disrupt terrorist operations and attack the Taliban. Eighteen years later, the Taliban are steadily getting stronger.
- Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war
Reason for conflict that has already killed hundreds of Iranians and six US soldiers remains unclear
- مجلس خبراء القيادة الإيراني يختار مجتبى خامنئي زعيماً جديداً خلفاً لوالده - BBC News عربي
الحرب الأمريكية الإسرائيلية مع إيران: تأهب "لانتخاب" مرشد جديد وسط تهديدات إسرائيلية باستهداف الاجتماع، بينما يتوعد بزشكيان بالرد على محاولات "الهجوم والغزو"، بينما يرفض ترامب مساعدة الحلفاء تزامناً مع استمرار تعرض الخليج للهجمات الإيرانية.
- علي خامنئي: رحلة المرشد الأعلى في إيران من معارضة الشاه إلى خلافة الخميني - BBC News عربي
كان خامنئي الشخصية السياسية الأبرز في إيران على مدار عشرات السنين التي شهدت الكثير من الأحداث
- ما الذي يعنيه اغتيال خامنئي؟ | أخبار | الجزيرة نت
الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترمب أعلن اغتيال المرشد الأعلى الإيراني علي خامنئي، في حين لم تؤكد إيران أو تنف رسميا هذا الخبر الذي يمثل تحولا كبيرا في تاريخ الجمهورية الإسلامية، كما يقول محللون.
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