Recently, the press and experts in the region of Asia are raising voices to deprecate and ridicule U.S. over the Afghan situation.
On August 17, Vietnamese newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan noted that the U.S. chess game is over and, in tandem with it, the Stars and Stripes atop the U.S. embassy was taken down in Afghanistan. It further said that the “Empire” that once invaded the other country sounding a bugle was driven into a piteous plight of withdrawing from Afghanistan overnight with disgrace, holding the flag of a loser. It went on to say that the reality in Afghanistan, subsequent to those of Iraq and Libya, is substantiation of the fact that the war of intervention can in no way apply “a free and democratic model of a world power” to every country.
Namrata Sharma, female rights activist and senior journalist of Nepal in an article contributed to the newspaper “Rising Nepal” wrote as follows:
The U.S. and its allies that invaded Afghanistan in 2001 turned the country into a scene of utter confusion in 2021 beating a hasty retreat in groups. The issue here is what the Afghan war, waged for two decades by the U.S., has brought to this country. The centuries-old foreign intervention to Afghanistan has devastated the country many a time, which serves as a lesson to the people all over the world that they should strive to develop their countries by their own efforts.
Director of ORF, a think tank of India, wrote in an article entitled “The Disgrace of Western Free Order” that the Afghans ran the risk of helping the West espousing its values. But they are now given the cold shoulder by it. Today, the limitation of the West has been clearly revealed and their disgrace faced in Afghanistan will have a prolonged impact on their strategic thinking.
Such appraisal by the press and experts in the region of Asia shows that international society is disillusioned with U.S. and the West over the current Afghan situation.