As the US nears the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as the world cringes over the evolving human rights disaster in Afghanistan, RantWoman finds this chart both tragic and illuminating.
Afghan casualties over time from The Economist
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Commenting unencumbered by full explanation, bar chart showing deaths in thousands of Afghan civilians, Afghan military, us troops, and allied troops from2001 to 2021.
Civilian deaths steadily about 3000 / year since about 2010.
Deaths of Afghan forces increase from about 1000 / year in 2007 to about 12,000 in 2020.
Deaths of US forces declined from a few hundred in 2009 to almost none in recent years.
RantWoman has NO information about military strategy or campaigns, RantWoman only speculates: if Afghan forces were taking that many casualties several years running WITH US air support (drone strikes?) RantWoman finds it completely unsurprising that they had no interest in fighting after a US withdrawal.
Only SOME of the Light to be found at Waging Nonviolence
What a truly humanitarian response in Afghanistan would look like.
PRogressive openings as US empire declines?
RantWoman will stop there for now.
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