Is the War in Afghanistan Really Over?

Depiction of the sole survivor of Britain’s 1842 Retreat From Kabul, The first, but certainly not the final British defeat in Afghanistan. On February 15th, 1989 Soviet General Boris Gromov stoically walked across the Afghan-Uzbek border, as camera crews filmed the momentous event. He was the last Soviet officer to leave Afghanistan, marking an official end to a nine year war that had killed nearly 15,000 soldiers, and had drained the coffers of a crumbling communist regime. While it was a somewhat dignified end to the bloody quagmire, nobody had any illusions as to what this meant for Russia. The soviet war machine had clearly lost the war to the ragtag Mujahideen, and their American supporters. Fast forward 15 years later, and what you’ll see is a somewhat similar scene playing out for US military forces in Afghanistan, though I would argue it is far less dignified.



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