By Sandeep Singh Grewal
The US has “damaged its alliances” globally by retreating from a war which it “could not win” in Afghanistan, said a retired four-star US army general.
David Petraeus, a former top commander in the Middle East and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, also highlighted the US failure, bleak financial future of Afghanistan under the Taliban and warned of the rise of virtual caliphates.
He was speaking during a webinar on ‘The State of Play in Afghanistan’ hosted by the American think tank, Atlantic Council.
PHOTO: Inset, Mr Petraeus speaks during the virtual event. A US Marine with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) escorts a child to his family during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 24, 2021.
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