The Pentagon is indicating that they are about to announce a new deployment of US ground troops into Afghanistan, though they offered no specifics on the exact timing of the announcement, not the specific size of the deployment.
Comments from officials, however, appear to suggest that the 3,900-man “cap” placed on deployments by President Trump when he delegated responsibility for the surge to Defense Secretary James Mattis, is going to be wholly used, and then some.
Officials were quick to insist that the 3,900 cap is “a stopgap” for the US escalation, and “not a permanent cap” on the number of troops that will be deployed overall as part of the new surge. This certainly gives the impression that they’re expecting to go beyond that.
The US currently has around 8,400 troops in Afghanistan. Military leadership appears to uniformly advocate escalations, attempting to slow the rate of territory loss sustained by the Afghan government, and to try to reverse the overall trend of the 16-year conflict.
The Deep State’s sizeable cut of the uber-profitable Afghani heroin trade makes it the jewel in the neo-Raj crown.
“…try to reverse the overall trend of the 16-year conflict.”
Well, hell, if the geniuses who’ve been managing this invasion couldn’t figure out how to win in 16 years, what are the odds that the same people are suddenly going to get a different result doing the same old things?
Heard of the adage: “Performing the same actions over and over again and expecting different results is insanity.”? Well, sending more US troops to Afghanistan fits this definition to a T.
The US has never learned from history regarding Afghanistan; and, thus, has swapped roles with the former USSR .. And, in doing so, US troops will be totally driven out of Afghanistan just as those of the USSR were two decades ago.
“…US troops will be totally driven out…”
Hmmm, perhaps. Remember, when the Russians were driven out the US were supporting the Mujahideen (bin Laden). Now why would the Russians even consider supporting the Taliban/ISIS/whomever to drive the US out when just leaving the US where they are would be a more successful tactic to…say, perhaps, “Phuqu.”
It’s official, the USA and the Soviet Union have swapped roles.
I think you are lot closer to right than almost every one believes . But clearly Russia has been operating on a higher moral plane than the USA for almost the last twenty years . It is the side than United States assists that is always pulling false flag attacks Where Russia is most always the peace maker or guilty of trying to protect Christian civilians .
Enough of perpetual unwinnable wars. Contact your congresspersons and tell them to end the AUMF and end these perpetual wars in failed nations. Our actions only make the situation in these failed nations worse and our military gets nowhere. We are on a fools errand.
As soon as our troops leave the Afghan government we selected for them will leave too .Evidently we are not winning the hearts of the Afghan people by shooting up their weddings and killing their people . We should has let the south Korean missionaries stay they might have done better . These wars we are so quick to go into are not working out very well . We seem to be making more enemies faster than friends .
About half of the people who inhabit the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan are Pashtun. It is the ancestral Pashtun homeland. They do not know a border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It does not exist for them, it is all Pashtun tribal land. The drone strikes made enemies of the Pashtun, who have fought for generations to drive out outsiders.
Conquer the people of Afghanistan? Queen Victoria couldn’t do it … Leonid Brezhnev couldn’t do it … Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great both failed, what chance did the United States have of outlasting the Pasthun in an extended war of attrition and defeating 42 million of them on their home turf?
Vietnam all over again. How stupid, how morally repugnant, can one one nation be? I think we’re discovering that now.