Patriots,
if we can't win a war in 17 years it is time to get out, in my opinion. Your Watchman is convinced that the nefarious motive for the war in Afghanistan is to pump heroin into the United States. This happened during the Vietnam War in the Golden Triangle and has been happening in Afghanistan in the Golden Crescent. Watch the movie "American Gangster" to see Frank Lewis (Denzel Washington) who made multi-millions pumping heroin "Blue Magic" into New York. The Frank Lewis bust was one of the largest drug busts in history and resulted in large scale police arrests in New York City. Another gangster, whose name I cannot remember, made even more money than Frank Lewis using the "Golden Triangle".
if we can't win a war in 17 years it is time to get out, in my opinion. Your Watchman is convinced that the nefarious motive for the war in Afghanistan is to pump heroin into the United States. This happened during the Vietnam War in the Golden Triangle and has been happening in Afghanistan in the Golden Crescent. Watch the movie "American Gangster" to see Frank Lewis (Denzel Washington) who made multi-millions pumping heroin "Blue Magic" into New York. The Frank Lewis bust was one of the largest drug busts in history and resulted in large scale police arrests in New York City. Another gangster, whose name I cannot remember, made even more money than Frank Lewis using the "Golden Triangle".
In his Monday night speech on the Afghan War, President Trump
committed the US to an essentially open-ended escalation of the conflict
without any specific limitations, while granting commanders broader authority
to unilaterally target “the enemy.”
President
Trump stressed that his first instinct was to withdraw. He added that
“historically I like following my instincts.” However, he said that “decisions
are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office.” He added
that he’s committed to “an honorable and enduring outcome” worthy of the
longest war in American history and the large number of dead.
What
that outcome looks like, or how specifically he plans to get there are anyone’s
guess.
But
President Trump said that the US strategy would be secret, saying the US is
removing any timetables for ending the war in Afghanistan. He said that he will
not talk publicly about troop numbers in Afghanistan or plans for ongoing
military activity there. While arguing that “America’s enemies must never know
our plans.”
Trump’s
secrecy also means the American public will have no idea how the Afghan War is
being prosecuted.
This
mirrors the decision to make troop levels in Iraq and Syria officially secret,
but is also a much broader commitment. He set the stage for general escalation
of an Afghan war that, over the past 16 years, has shown itself to endure
through more or less any escalation conceivable. In committing to continue that
war until victory, Trump effectively made the war permanent.
Trump
presented continuation as both about 9/11, and about how opposed he is to the
2011 US withdrawal from Iraq, each presented as a reason not to withdraw, but
seemingly each an excuse that’s never going to not stand in the way of ending
the war.
The
broad message of Trump’s speech seemed to be that the US wasn’t aggressive
enough in Afghanistan so far, criticizing President Obama for “micromanaging”
the conflict. Trump said he believes that US military victories come from
“judgement and expertise of wartime commanders.”
Trump
gave some lip-service to economic aid for Afghanistan, particularly pushing
India to “do more.” But he insisted that the US had abandoned nation-building,
declaring “we are not nation-building again, we’re killing terrorists.”
This
declaration also gives the impression of a permanent war, claiming 20 distinct
terrorist organizations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and vowing to lift
restrictions on “our warfighters.” He vowed that “no place is out of the reach
of American might.”
Ultimately,
an escalation of 4,000 troops and a re-commitment to the status quo likely
would’ve been much milder than what Trump appears to be proposing. Trump’s
determination to keep troop levels secret leaves the door open to a series of
endless escalations down the road, which the American public are liable to
never hear about.
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