20年以前,美军为了消灭塔利班而侵入阿富汗。现在,经受了最血腥攻击的米军正在依赖塔利班来保护自己的安全,而直到数周之前,米军还在试图杀死这个组织的成员。。。。。
“Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban. Today, American forces, battered by one of the bloodiest attacks of the war, are relying for their own security on that same group, whose members they were trying to kill just weeks earlier.
Fighters of the Taliban’s elite Badri 313 unit, dressed in the latest tactical gear, patrol the same Kabul airport parking lot as U.S. Marines, separated by a few coils of razor wire. Farther away, Taliban foot soldiers pat down Afghans seeking to enter the facility and disperse crowds with whips and occasional gunfire in the air.“