Hours after the withdrawal of the last US troops from Afghanistan, Amrullah Saleh, the former Vice-President of the war-torn country, took a dig at the US military pullout, saying that a “superpower decided to be mini power”.
The final US evacuation plane flew out of Kabul airport on Monday around midnight, a day ahead of schedule, ending a 20-year war in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has not simply disappeared merely because the US forces, which had controlled considerable parts of it since 2001, have now left, Saleh said.
Saleh, the self-proclaimed “caretaker” President of Afghanistan, further said that the Taliban’s takeover earlier this month only reflects on the “superpower’s” own stature.
In a Twitter post, he said: “The Taliban are an unpopular proxy force and hated. That is why the whole country wants to escape from them. A superpower decided to be mini power. That is OK.”
The former Vice-President shared a video of one of his television interviews tweeted by Canadian columnisy Tarek Fate
US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday America has ended its longest war in Afghanistan, hours after the last plane carrying US forces left Afghanistan.
The departure of US’ C17 aircraft from Kabul’s airport was the last chapter in the military effort, which saw the US handing Afghanistan back to the Islamist group it sought to oust when American troops entered the country in 2001.
