America and the Taliban: The need for transparency and accountability.
12 min readAug 27, 2021
Over 170 people died in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021— 13 of them were Americans. Congress needs to investigate what happened and why.
There’s a lot to consider when it comes to Afghanistan. There’s a past. We funded and trained the Taliban to fight the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s. And for the last 20 years, we trained Afghan forces…