The Taliban's attacks in the Afghan capital on Sunday targeted the national parliament, NATO's headquarters, and the German, British, Japanese and Russian embassies. About 100 people were killed or wounded, and the fighting lasted for 18 hours. There was a similar attack in the centre of the Afghan capital last September. If this were the Vietnam war, we would now have reached about 1971.
The U.S. government has already declared its intention to withdraw from Afghanistan in two years' time, just as it did in Vietnam back in 1971. Richard Nixon wanted his second-term presidential election out of the way before he pulled the plug, just as Barack Obama does now.
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