Pity the poor Afghan people - violence and killings go on and on

The war in Afghanistan may be over for the US and British military but for the Afghan people life is war, there is no end to the appalling slaughter. At least 50 Shia Muslims worshipping at their mosque in Kunduz in the north are killed by a suicide bomber. An Isis suicide bomber no doubt although there are so many evil people in Afghanistan that it could be anyone with revenge, grievance or sheer hatred in his heart. The sound of women shrieking inside and outside the mosque on the video released is terrible to hear. In Washington Joe Biden may well be saying to himself, "You see this is why I wanted all troops home, no one can save Afghanistan". He's probably right and even if thousands of US troops were still in the country, they wouldn't have been able to stop the suicide bomber. After all, they couldn't prevent the Isis suicide bomber at Kabul airport on August 26 which killed more than 180 people even though they knew it was coming. But you have to despair for the Afghan people who have nothing to do with any of the extremists in their country and just want a life that excludes daily violence and death. I can't see it ever happening. Isis hates the Taliban and will continue to carry out their gruesome trade. The Taliban over 20 years killed countless civilians, so they can't be counted on to symathise with the people they are now theoretically governing. It can only get worse for the Afghans and with the departure of the US-led coalition, no one in the West is going to care as much as they did when they were living amongst them and trying to protect them from Taliban death squads.