President Trump claimed on Monday that he could win the Afghanistan War within a week, but that doing so would involve wiping Afghanistan off the Earth and killing 10 million people and “I don’t want to go that route.”
Trump made the comments in the context of a visit by Pakistan’s premier, and blaming Pakistan for being “subversive” and undermining the US war. He says now Pakistan is going to “help us out.”
Talk of “winning” a US war by way of genocide, however, shows a troubling view of how US conflicts are fought, as presumably in the 18+ years of Afghan War, simply exterminating all the Afghans was never raised as an actual option by any administration.
The option has clearly never been brought up by anyone else. President Trump seems to want to present his lack of genocide both as an excuse for not winning the plainly lost Afghan War, and something to his credit, that he resisted that path to victory.
Trump argued that the US is making progress in Afghanistan now, despite all indications being that the war continues to worsen. He provided no metrics, not indeed really could he have, since the Pentagon has dismissed al such metrics over the course of the war, and no longer keeps track of much of anything that was once lauded as potential signs of progress.
War mongers 18 year forever war failure.
The guy is unbelievable. All hail to King Donald for he is allowing his subjects in Afghanistan to continue living.
We bombed North Korea until we ran out of targets
Nearly seventy years ago
I’m sure Donald Trump has no memory of Vietnam
Look at our benevolent leader! Those millions truly need to kiss Donald’s shoes for so generously sparing their lives. And in a sh*thole country to boot.
Mr. Trump, Chuck Norris called.
He wants his lines back.
There is nothing new about Trump’s mindset. To assume so is a mistake. America has launched many genocidal conflicts when doing so discreetly has been possible. The bombing campaign against Cambodia and the sanction regime in Iraq are two examples. Proxy genocides in East Timor, Guatemala and the current slow motion holocaust in Yemen are more examples. The only clear ethical difference between Trump and men like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Dick Nixon is his lack of discretion. I personally don’t see this lack of discretion as a negative. Trump’s goals remain as heinous as his predecessors but his lack of ability to cover these aims with flowery language lays America’s ambitions bare to the world at large. At least with Trump they see the knife before he gets close enough to use it. Trump has simply depleted the empire of it’s stealth with his classless bombast. For that, if nothing else, we can thank the bastard for his unique service.
Why would any responsible contractor at RAND Corporation (or whomever) work-up such a scenario and present it to our Technicolor 3-D delusional Commander in Chief? What kind of sickos are working for us?
Doubt spanky reads anything from anywhere, more likely, some horrible movie plot.
Once again, trying to analyze anything Trump says as somehow being significant is simply a waste of time. Nothing he says is significant, not to him certainly, so it should not be significant to us except as proof of how low the US has fallen in terms of the quality of its alleged “leaders.”
I mean, the Republicans actually put forth Sarah Palin. Now we have Trump. What more do you need to know that the US is a circus and our alleged “Presidents” are nothing more than circus acts to keep the stupid electorate distracted from the real owners of the country?
Actually occasionally the fool speaks the truth. What percentage of the Japanese population did we kill? what percentage of the German population, or of the Confederacies population? Those were wars we won. Now if the USA isn’t willing to kill as much as is necessary ( and I hope they aren’t) maybe it would be best not to start anything. I think to our credit we don’t really have what it takes to be an Empire.