The retired US Army Brigadier-General Don Bolduc, who lost 69 soldiers in the war against the Taliban, announced the complete victory over Taliban in the 17-year US war in Afghanistan.
“We just haven’t figured it out yet, but the Taliban have already won”, said Balduc, adding that this information is a “bitter pill” for soldiers who fought side by side in a Central Asian country.
“Our soldiers carried out the order. They saw their brothers in arms get injured, die on the battlefield. All this is due to the failure of our politicians and our senior military leaders. They will have to swallow this pill,” he said.
According to Bolduc, he still keeps 69 tokens of those soldiers whom he lost during five years in Afghanistan to remember the price for bad policies and strategies.
Retired Major General Jeff Schlesser, who commanded the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan from early 2008 to mid-2009, told Yahoo News that he had lost 184 soldiers in Afghanistan.
“If the US accepted the capitulation of the Taliban at the end of 2001, maybe it would be concluded on our terms,” said Bolduc, adding that today it is completed with the terms of the Taliban.