During a surprise visit to Afghanistan today, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter touted the massive expansion of the rule of engagement for US forces in the country, saying they will allow for “more efficient” support of the Afghan government in fighting the Taliban.
The previous rules, which nominally marked the end of the Afghan War, restricted active US operations in Afghanistan, but mounting losses to the Taliban has left the insurgency with more land than any time since the 2001 US invasion, leading to the escalation.
New US commander in Afghanistan Gen. Nicholson confirmed Carter’s comments, and said the new authority was used far more often than the Pentagon had previously admitted, insisting that troops used the authority “almost daily.”
Nicholson insisted that defense operations in support of the Afghans had been picking up for 18 months at any rate, well before the new authority was granted, but that now the US could take on operations “more of an offensive nature.”
Nicholson insisted that defense operations in support of the Afghans….
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Translation: We need to keep the Opium crop at record levels. Warmonger Neocon lying sons of bitches
But I was winning!
No Trulaine,
Yankee come home,your house is on fire.
This is why they want to remain folks.
Jan 9, 2015 Opium Production in Afghanistan Sets Record – American Soldiers Helping Heroin Sales
June 10, 2014 Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/opium-fields10-1024×682.jpg
There are almost 400 US military bases and “camps” in Afghanistan. Is anyone naive enough to think we would just “get out of there”? Like Iraq and many, many other countries , we are there to stay.
Forget Puerto Rico –maybe we’ll make Afghanistan the 51st state!
Is that the same type of “Authority” that legalized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in 1979? Why did we boycott the Olympics and impose a grain embargo on them, if all a nation needs to bomb, invade, or occupy is the invader’s “Authority”.
How many of those troops will be used to guard the poppies?