Who Bears Responsibility?

[orangecrush]

Hours after the Islamic State launched a coordinated suicide bomb attack among the desperate crowds gathered outside Kabul’s international airport on Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to continue evacuations—and to retaliate against the perpetrators. “Know this: We will not forgive, we will not forget,” he said in a speech from the White House. “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”

The attack killed more than 70 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. troops in at least two blasts, leaving the area around the airport in chaos. Members of the Islamic State group’s local branch, known as Islamic State-Khorasan, detonated suicide vests at the airport’s Abbey Gate and outside the nearby Baron Hotel. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the attack, which underscores the security challenges the group faces as it formally establishes a government in Kabul.

The bombings came just days before an Aug. 31 deadline for full U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which had already added an extreme sense of urgency to the evacuations of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies who had been able to make it through the airport gates. Biden had deployed 5,800 troops to assist with the evacuation effort, but he had expressed hesitancy to keep them at the airport past Aug. 31 due to the potential for terrorist attacks.

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Who bears responsibility? While Islamic State-Khorasan has claimed responsibility for the attack, Sajjan M. Gohel argues in Foreign Policy that the Taliban faction partially in control of security at the airport, the Haqqani network, should also be scrutinized. The attack ultimately benefits the Haqqani network by speeding up foreign departures and evacuations. “It’s often said there’s a clear split between Islamic State-Khorasan and the Taliban, but the harsh reality of terrorism and politics in Afghanistan is the situation is never black and white,” Gohel writes.




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That last paragraph is interesting.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Nothing is ever as black and white as we would like it to be. Assigning blame and...

chasing down the malefactors rarely solves anything.

[Chainfire]

2. C'est la guerre

When you send troops to war, troops are going to die; it is a hard and fast rule. I would have thought that the people got that by now. Who's fault? It's our own damn fault! We could have demanded that we get out of the Afghani's civil war decades ago. If people hadn't gone to the streets and raised hell we would still be in Vietnam.

In the next few weeks some young American is going to have the honor of being the last KIA in yet another "lost" war. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=country+joe+and+the+fish+vietnam+song&view=detail&mid=C21112E83BBED35E4FF0C21112E83BBED35E4FF0&FORM=VIRE

[sanatanadharma]

3. The one who takes responsibility, bears responsibility

The one who takes responsibility, bears responsibility.

Responsibility may or may not be in company of blame.
President Biden is responsible.

The one who is irresponsible can't be trusted with responsibilities but can incur blame.
Trump demonstrate this truth. He is unbearable.