Almost a year after the withdrawal of American troops, the strike that killed the leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, on July 31, in Kabul, is a success for Joe Biden. Something to make you forget the chaos of last summer, note CNN, and show that the United States can strike its enemies in Afghanistan “from the other side of the horizon”, as the president said.
At least that is the message from the White House. Because some observers have rather seen it as a sign of failure.
“This is proof that the talks between Americans and the Taliban in recent years have failed,” denounces Asfandyar Mir, expert in counter-terrorism in Washington, in the columns of the New York Times.
“These discussions were based on the belief that the Taliban would change, seek to improve their relations with the rest of the world and avoid making Afghanistan a haven for terrorist networks. The fact that Al-Zawahiri had taken refuge in Kabul clearly shows that the Americans cannot trust the Taliban.”
The Doha agreement, signed in 2020 under the Trump administration, “stipulated that [les talibans] wouldn’t let Afghanistan serve as a rear base […] to prepare attacks targeting the United States and its allies”, remember The Wall Street Journal. In the eyes of the United States, this agreement has clearly been violated.
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