22 August 2021 — Indian Punchline
Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, is a natural fortress, a long verdant valley surrounded by towering mountain ridges leading to the Pamir.
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Many Indian analysts are ecstatic that the Taliban’s goose is cooked, as Amrullah Saleh, deposed president Ashraf Ghani’s former deputy, is on the march to marshal an anti-Taliban resistance movement, a la the Northern Alliance of the late 1990s.
The interior of a US Air Force C-27 Globemaster III transport aircraft carrying Afghans from Kabul to Qatar (File photo)![Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance of the green zone area in Kabul on August 16, 2021 [WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-1234709707-scaled-e1629107717595.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Taliban officially declared the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in a tweet with a photo of the country’s logo, August 19, 2021
Circa 1915: American naval officers and marines from the USS Washington come ashore for the capture of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. (Photograph by Getty Images)
Malina Suliman (Afghanistan), Girl in the Ice Box, 2013.
Ken Loach. (Photo: via Facebook)
What is abundantly clear is that the U.S. has not been thrown out of Afghanistan. Quite the opposite. 
The New Dark Age 