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📰 Will the Taliban take Afghanistan back to the past?

🀄 塔利班會把阿富汗帶回過去嗎？

"Thanks to God you are come," shouted an old man as my colleagues and I marched into Kabul on 14 November 2001, battling our way through the joyful crowds.

📌 2001 年 11 月 14 日，當我和我的同事們走進喀布爾時，一位老人喊道：“感謝上帝，你來了。” ，我們在歡樂的人群中艱難跋涉。

The anti-Taliban(塔利班) forces of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which had the backing of the US and other Western countries, had halted(停止) on the city outskirts, and the Taliban had simply run for it.

Five years of the most extreme religious dictatorship(獨裁政府) in recent times were over. Under the Taliban, Afghanistan(阿富汗) had become a black hole in which all sorts of extremism(極端主義) could thrive(滋生).

📌 阿富汗的北方聯盟的反塔利班武裝得到美國等西方國家支持，在城郊停了下來，塔利班乾脆逃跑。最近五年最極端的宗教獨裁結束了。在塔利班統治下，阿富汗成為各種極端主義滋生的黑洞。

Only two months earlier the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington had been planned and guided by Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda movement. It simply never occurred to me then that Taliban could make a comeback(捲土重來).

📌 就在兩個月前，對紐約和華盛頓的 9/11 襲擊是由奧薩馬·本·拉登和他的阿爾蓋達組織運動策劃和指導的。那時我根本沒想到塔利班會捲土重來。

The governments of Afghanistan's two post-Taliban presidents, Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani, were democratically(民主地) elected but never strong, and corruption(腐敗) was the system which worked best.

Nevertheless President Ghani would still be in his palace and the army would be driving round in its expensive Western vehicles, if Donald Trump had not decided that he needed a foreign policy success before the 2020 election.

📌 阿富汗的兩位後塔利班總統哈米德·卡爾扎伊和阿什拉夫·加尼的政府是民主選舉產生的，但從不強大，腐敗是運作最好的制度。
儘管如此，如果唐納德川普沒有決定他需要在 2020 年大選之前取得外交政策的成功，加尼總統仍將在他的宮殿裡，軍隊將駕駛昂貴的西方車輛四處行駛。

Several Afghan politicians(政客) and journalists(記者) I know were horrified by the conclusion of the US talks with the Taliban political leadership in Doha in February 2020, and doubly so when President Joe Biden made it clear he was going to stick to it.

📌 我認識的幾位阿富汗政界人士和記者對 2020 年 2 月美國與塔利班政治領導人在多哈的會談結束感到震驚，而當喬·拜登總統明確表示他將堅持下去時，更是倍感震驚。

I was warned that no matter how moderate and peaceable the leaders in Doha might promise to be, the Taliban fighters on the ground would feel no compulsion(強迫) to observe the fine print.
And so it proved.

📌 我被警告說，無論多哈領導人承諾多麼溫和和平，地面上的塔利班戰士都不會被迫遵守細則。事實證明如此。

Directly after the US, British and other Western troops(軍隊) began pulling out(撤退), the Taliban fighters across Afghanistan made their play for power. Reports of prisoners being executed(被處決) brought an atmosphere of blind panic in one town after another, until Kabul itself succumbed(屈服) and officials and soldiers were battling(爭鬥) their way to the airport to get out.

📌 就在美英等西方軍隊開始撤軍後，阿富汗各地的塔利班武裝分子開始爭奪權力。囚犯被處決的報導在一個又一個城鎮引起了盲目恐慌的氣氛，直到喀布爾本身屈服，官員和士兵爭先恐後地趕往機場逃生。

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//在美國官員乘直升機離開大使館時，阿富汗總統阿什拉夫·加尼正在與美國阿富汗和解問題特別代表扎爾邁·哈利勒扎德和其他北約高級官員進行緊急會談。

據美聯社報導，塔利班已進入喀布爾郊區。關於塔利班部隊是否已進入喀布爾市中心的報導相互矛盾。

阿富汗代理內政部長表示，過渡將和平進行，安全部隊將留在原地，以「確保喀布爾的安全」。

塔利班發表聲明稱，他們「沒有用武力佔領這座城市的計劃」，也無意對在阿富汗政府或軍隊服役的人「報復」。

來自美國和英國的數千名士兵正飛入機場以確保機場安全，這是塔利班所控的該國所有過境點的唯一出境路線。

阿富汗官員稱，政府軍已將巴格拉姆空軍基地交給塔利班；該基地是一座監獄，關押著 5,000 名囚犯，其中包括塔利班和ISIS叛亂分子。//

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何度も訪れるアップダウンに挑み..さて結果は！？

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It`s a passion. So the other day off I went to the outskirts of Tokyo to participate in a half marathon. My PB up until now is 89:59...

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After spending a few days in the outskirts and rural Indonesia, it is time for me to head back to the capital Jakarta. However, things doesn't always goes as planned isn't it? ?

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