Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban. Today, American forces are relying for their own security on that same group, whose members they were trying to kill just weeks earlier.
In this arrangement, the 5,200 American forces in Afghanistan “use the Taliban as a tool to protect us as much as possible,” Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of the U.S.
Central Command, said afterMore than that: The Taliban checkpoints on the way to the airport—in coordination with the U.S.—are screening Afghans whose past work with Western forces puts them in danger of Taliban retribution. The Taliban are “providing the outer security cordon” for American forces, Gen. McKenzie said, and have closed some roads at U.S. request, extending the checkpoints’ perimeter.
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