Future airstrikes against Afghan targets will be a costly logistical challenge and would surely undermine any chance Washington has of convincing the Taliban to dissociate from al-Qaeda. Without thousands of troops in Afghanistan, the United States will no longer have the intelligence capabilities to follow terrorist activities along the border with Pakistan. However, the challenge for Washington now is to articulate a counter-terrorism strategy in South Asia with far fewer resources at its disposal. political and military leaders to focus on China and Russia. It may ultimately free up resources for U.S. In time, the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan may prove to have been the right one for the United States.
All of this will have immense implications for the future of jihadism in South Asia and beyond. While the Pakistani Taliban has lost much of its strength, it could reconstitute in Afghanistan and launch attacks into Pakistan.
Anti-India terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed could eventually use the country as a base to launch attacks in Kashmir or other parts of India, as they did in the 1990s. Transnational groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, as well as their affiliates and regional branches, will likely step up their activities from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. forces, collapse of the Afghan military, and ascendance of the Taliban pose a massive counter-terrorism threat. For countries in South Asia - particularly India - the withdrawal of U.S. The short-term imperatives of saving as many Afghans as possible will soon give way to an assessment of what the new Afghanistan means for international security. Several fell hundreds of feet to their deaths trying to cling to a U.S.
While the Taliban holds press conferences, thousands of desperate Afghans flank the runway at Hamid Karzai International Airport, desperate for a flight out of the country.
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