Top US military commander admits: We lost war in Afghanistan

SANAA, Sept. 30 (YPA) – General  Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the US military lost the war in Afghanistan, even though it carried out some of its tasks.

The war was a strategic failure,” Milley told a committee hearing about the US troop pullout from Afghanistan and the chaotic evacuation from the capital Kabul. “It wasn’t lost in the last 20 days or even 20 months,” Milley said.

He noted that in Afghanistan the United States was able to deal with the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but was unable to prevent the Taliban from gaining power there.

“It is clear, it is obvious to all of us, that the war in Afghanistan did not end on the terms we wanted, with the Taliban in power in Kabul,” General Mark Milley concluded.

The US has made a series of wrong strategic decisions, which together have led to the failure of the entire military operation in Afghanistan, Milly said.

He urged the US military to learn from what happened so that the same mistakes would not be repeated in the future.

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