“To think — given that they have failed with all these resources to fix the problems of Afghanistan — that we can now, without those forces and money, solve the problems they couldn’t solve for decades is a fantasy,” Guterres told Reuters in an interview.
For the last two decades, the international community, including the United States, has poured resources into the country including money and the deployment of soldiers, the news outlet noted. About $1 trillion has come from the United States alone, according to the news outlet.