The past week in Afghanistan has been one of the deadliest in years, with several major Taliban attacks across the country, including major strikes in the capital city of Kabul, killing hundreds of people.
Last Monday, Taliban stormed a luxury hotel, killing 22. Days later, ISIS hit the charity Save the Children in Nangarhar, chasing the group out of the country. Over the weekend, a Taliban ambulance bomb killed at least another 103 and wounded hundreds more. This Monday, another 11 troops were killed in Kabul.
Afghan security forces appear totally unready for such major attacks, even in what are nominally their most secure cities, and the massive US escalation in Afghanistan has clearly not put the militants on the defensive, far from it.
The Afghan War has been going badly for years, and this latest week is a testament to just how bad things have gotten. President Trump is even ruling out diplomacy at this point, which may suggest he believes the US is in too weak of a position to negotiate.
Yet the situation isn’t getting any better, and the US doesn’t appear to have any plans for the war beyond just throwing more troops at it, something which so far hasn’t accomplished much of anything.
The Taliban regime in 2001 was dystopian, shambolic, immensely unpopular and beginning to split into mutually opposed factions. It would have imploded by 2003 or 4 at the latest, without America’s invasion. Instead, today the Taliban are Afghan national heroes, to the extent that even the Hazara, Tajik and Uzbek the Taliban once massacred and persecuted have joined the movement. Quite clearly, 16 years after the Amerikastani invasion, the Taliban are the least bad option before Afghanistan now – the only other choices are, after all, the puppet sex slaver warlord regime propped up by the Amerikastani invaders on the one hand and the headchoppers of ISIS on the other.
And the Amerikastanis are entirely, without exception, to blame for that.
Moreover, President Trump’s new friend, INDIA, is very smartly trapping Americans to Die in Afghanistan. INDIA, A Criminal NAZI RSS, BJP Hindu Terrorist Country will Never Send Her (Indian) Coward Terrorist Army to Afghanistan to Fight alongside American & Coalition Forces. India, wants American & Coalition Forces to Sacrifice Their Citizens, While India will Get The Benefits.
India didn’t help invade Iraq either despite the urging of pro Amerikastani fifth columnist scum at the time. Even the Modi regime is not stupid enough to send troops to certain defeat in Afghanistan.
“Even the Modi regime is not stupid enough to send troops to certain defeat in Afghanistan.”
You are 100 % right Sir, India is working on CHANKIA Policy for centuries; making other people fight for Criminal Terrorist RSS, BJP HiNDUS. But, sorry to say, President Trump is being made Stupid by Acclaimed Terrorist Modi (he was denied visa to U.S.A. for Genocide in Indian State of Gujrat, previously). Modi & Other Indian Government Terrorist Hindus know, how to manipulate Americans to send their Citizens to Valley of Death in Afghanistan and Reap The Benefits for Indian Citizens & India.
17 years of abject failure show that US foreign policy in Afghanistan is a failure. Even the Soviets were only stupid enough to stay 9 years.
But “War is the health of the nation.” Our U.S. economy is dependent on being in a perpetual state of war.
Americans are so wrapped up in the flag they can’t see the war benefits only the Military equipment manufacturers. Ask anyone why we fight there they will say it is to combat terrorism, which is pretty much the opposite of what is being accomplished.