Even after spending over 64 billion US dollars since 2002 in Afghanistan,Washington has not been able hitherto to buy peace in that country.A great deal of hope was pinned on the newly-raised Afghan national army as well police trained by the allied forces that they would deliver,but in vain.Their performance has been disappointing,to say the least.Even their fealty to their US paymasters is questionable as many of them are on record having deserted to the Taliban along with their weaponry.Neither the US nor the Afghan officials are certain how many of them are actually performing their duties and it is feared that the US might be paying salaries to ghost police officers and armymen.There are many who believe that they might join the Taliban en masse once they see the back of the last US marine in Kabul. But for the assistance of the US forces,the Afghan national army would not have been able to wrest back Kunduz from the Taliban in the near past.Small wonder the new American military commander for Afghanistan General John Nicholson has rightly said that the Afghan national Army and police are not in a position to face the Taliban on their own without military assistance of the US for a couple of more years.It is widely believed that about 3000 Taliban have crossed over to the ranks of Daesh who are quite active in the province of Ningrahar which lies at a close proximity from the Pakistan border.The province of Helmand is also slipping out of the hands of Afghan government.Last year alone about 16000 Afghan army and police officers were either killed or wounded.
In Iraq too the US had invested about 25 billion dollars on raising new Iraqi war machine in the vain hope that once it would pull out from it that would take care of the law and order there.That,however, proved to be a wishful thinking as Iraq continues to sizzle.
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