This is what the American people do. He destroys everything. ‘| Asian Stories

After settling in the dust on the main road leading to Afghanistan’s largest airport, Mir Salam swept a pile of broken electricity in front of him, after being rescued by US troops.

All around you are heaps of useless items and leftovers, from telephones and thermos bottles to computer keyboards and printing cartridges.

“This is what Americans do,” the 40-year-old told AFP. “He destroys everything.”

The Pentagon is leaving Bagram’s plane as part of its strategy to disarm the military by the 20th anniversary of the US-led terrorist attacks on September 11, and could end at the end of the month.

Weapons are being taken home or handed over to Afghan soldiers, but tons of weapons should remain. The result is a thriving business that makes money for others, but leaves many angry.

“They shoot or burn,” Salam says of discarded weapons. “There were a lot of new things on the site – enough to rebuild Afghanistan 20 times – but it ruined everything.”

For two decades, Bagram served as the US headquarters of events in Afghanistan.

The small town, which was visited by hundreds of thousands of contractors, boasts pools of water, cinemas and restaurants, as well as streetcars with shopping malls like Burger King and Pizza Hut.

It has a prison that has held thousands of Taliban and other prisoners over the years.

Bagram was arrested by the US for colluding with him in Afghanistan during the Cold War in the 1950s as a stronghold against the former Soviet Union in the north.

Ironically, it became the site of the Soviet occupation of the country in 1979, and the Red Army expanded dramatically in the last decade.

After Moscow came out, it became an integral part of the civil war. It has been reported that at one point, the Taliban controlled one side of the two-kilometer (two-kilometer) road with the other opposition Northern Alliance.

Salam pays 1,000 afghanis ($ 13) a month to rent a small fenced-in area on Bagram Street, where they store small pieces of money that they are looking for money to sell to special sellers.

The road leading down to it has several similar businesses, some for construction, but some for storage facilities with armed guards.

The main players have a contract to remove discarded weapons, which they select from items that can be repaired. Anything they don’t use is left to small retailers like Salam.

The ropes are stripped of copper, the timbers moving against the earth’s crust, and the alloys are collected to melt into the gutter.

Nothing goes wrong, says Haji Noor Rahman, a former businessman. “Anything that depends on it, people buy it,” he told AFP.

Its warehouse is like a garbage dump, beneath it are a number of strange objects – broken chairs, TV screens, gym equipment, electric piano keyboard, Christmas tree decorations and other decorations.

Abdul Basir, who hails from Kabul with a friend and closed the doors of about 8,000 Afghans in Afghanistan ($ 100).

Elsewhere, the young man dug out the printed shoes which still seemed to be a few miles away. Another browser bought a teddy bear and a mini rugby ball.

“The withdrawal of American troops will disrupt the country’s economy and that of Bagram,” provincial governor Lalah Shrin Raoufi told AFP.

“I met workers at a company that provided them with food … they were afraid of losing their jobs,” he said.

Raoufi said everything was happening to clear the area and its security after the last U.S. military left.

In the meantime, the release is ongoing.

“He came to rebuild our country but now he is destroying it,” said Mohammad Amin, a resident of Bagram, looking at the pile of pieces.

He could have given us all this. ”