While the US war in Afghanistan is reaching its end after almost two decades of fighting, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the US ‘war on terror’, while it fought the Taliban, did produce its own peculiar form of terrorism in the shape of war crimes and virtually unaccountable use of force on hundreds and thousands of innocent Afghan citizens. Countless instances of the US army’s indulgence in extra-judicial killings notwithstanding, the mercenaries the US unleashed on Afghanistan seem to have played an equally big role in relentlessly using force on common people.
The US president’s recent decision to sanction the International Criminal Court investigation into potential US war crimes speaks volumes about the fact that there is a lot more to the Afghan war than meets the eye and that the Taliban, al-Qaeda and even the Islamic State are not the only killing machines that the common Afghans have faced in past two decades or so.
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