TALIBAN MARCH TO KABUL AND BEYOND - PART I “Unless US reverses its decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, the latter will collapse to the dynamics of China-Iran-Pakistan alliance.” – Veteran Col RS Sidhu, August 2020 , ‘Geostrategic Portends in Asia’. https://valleysandvalour.blogspot.com/2020/08/geostrategic-portends-in-asia-2020-2025.html A Brutally Frank Appraisal US President Biden was brutally frank in providing the rationale for pulling out US forces from Afghanistan, that the US had intervened to safeguard the US mainland from terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan soil, and not to strengthen Afghanistan as a nation! The decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan had already been announced during the Presidency of Donald Trump. Thus it has bipartisan support in th...