Posted on 06/15/2016 7:08:06 AM PDT by Lorianne
The United States is asking its allies helping with security in Afghanistan to maintain funding for Afghan forces at a cost of nearly $5 billion a year until at least 2020, a top U.S. military commander said on Monday.
The plan extends the international financial commitment for the foreseeable future at a time when Western leaders have been hoping to reduce Afghanistan's reliance on foreign military aid.
Military commanders are making the pitch for continued funding ahead of a NATO summit in Warsaw in early July, where the alliance's leaders will discuss support for the Afghan government, which is struggling to contain a resurgent Taliban insurgency.
"There is strong agreement, certainly from the chiefs of defense, that the support for Afghanistan ... needs to continue," Major General Skip Davis told reporters in Kabul.
"I think there is much more consensus on the fact that stemming extremism here, in the region, is a direct contribution to security in the homeland. There’s a willingness to do what it takes."
Efforts by Western nations to extract themselves from the war in Afghanistan have been frustrated by high levels of violence.
When they gathered at a similar summit in 2012, NATO members and other nations had planned on slowly reducing financial support for Afghanistan as international troops withdrew.
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not to preach but this is why the US has a $20 trillion debt, the American people have no jobs and the US infrastructure is crap. Not to mention the heroin flooding the US that is grown in Afghanistan.
Is there any terrorist supporting country or area in the world that Obama is not funding to the gills?
Afghanistan and Iraq would be a good place to test old Nuclear weapons instead of dismantling them
President Trump needs to cancel that on January 21, 2017.
The UniParty have discovered that $ pumped into Afghanistan is eminently stealable. There is no incentive to turn it off while they’ve all got their snouts in the trough.
We really have no choice, we need the Opium. And we cannot have a War on Drugs without Drugs, so anything we can do to make sure the Opium Production and Distribution remains strong and intact in Afghanistan, we will do.
Yes, this is probably the main motivation.
Afghanistan takes the money and spends it on U.S. contractors and arms dealers. It’s a tidy system.
Spray the opium fields and come home. Repeat as necessary.
Sending billions to Hellholistan sounds like a good idea. I’m sure they need to re-arm after 13 years of war. Lust like Iran, they needed an infusion after 30+ years of sanctions. /sarc ( if anyone couldn’t tell) Why this man isn’t in solitary confinement at Gitmo is an indictment of sane Americans.
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