Sergei Balmasov: NATO Repeats all of Soviet's Mistakes in Afghanistan!

October 7 marked ten years since the beginning of the US-led operation in Afghanistan. What results have the United States ad its allies achieved in the operation? Most of Afghanistan's territory was controlled by the Taliban movement in the autumn of 2001. The movement seized the country's capital, Kabul, and made enemies retreat to the north. After the so-called 9/11 attacks, the USA demanded that the Taliban should deliver Osama bin Laden, but the Taliban refused. Therefore, the US attacked the country on October 7. As a result, the Taliban left Kabul on November 13. By the end of November, the Taliban was controlling only the southern part of the country, with strongholds in Kandahar. By the end of November, the Taliban was controlling only the southern part of the country, with a stronghold in Kandahar. By the end of the year, the American and British forces seized the Tora Bora complex of caves in the southern part of Afghanistan, where, according to our CIA, Bin Laden was hiding. Later, the Western Media reported that the operation had indeed ended as an outstanding success. On December 20, 2001, the UN Security Council approved the deployment of NATO's military mission in Afghanistan. Though "Independent Experts" said that the occupation forces had been losing the control over the situation, in October 2010, Mujahedeens stated that they were still controlling 70 percent of the Afghan territory. Apparently, NATO had not been able to change the situation on the ground. On the contrary, the situation in the north of that country kept getting worse.