Posted on 11/21/2017 6:02:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux
AIRPOWER UNLEASHED IN AFGHANISTAN: The strategy that took down the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is now on full display in Afghanistan. U.S. Afghanistan commander Gen. John “Mick” Nicholson says that in the first “significant” use of expanded authorities he is now able to target the source of the Taliban’s power: Its estimated $200 million annual income from opium sales. Under President Barack Obama, U.S. commanders were barred from conducting offensive airstrikes against the Taliban. Airstrikes had to be defensive and conducted in proximity to Afghan forces on the ground. Under President Trump’s new strategy, the U.S. is free to seek and destroy the drug labs that are the lifeblood of the Taliban, in the same way the U.S. targeted oil trucks, refineries and cash storage that provided a steady stream of revenue for ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.
“These new authorities give me the ability to go after the enemy in ways that I couldn't before … to use airpower in the most effective way, going forward,” Nicholson told Pentagon reporters in a live briefing from his headquarters in Afghanistan. “We're hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances.”
BREAKING THE CYCLE, BREAKING THEIR WILL: The war in Afghanistan, now in its 17th year, has followed an unproductive pattern of a spring/summer “fighting season,” followed by a winter lull, where both sides lick their wounds and get ready for next year. But under the new strategy, the U.S. will methodically target drug production facilities over the winter to put increasing pressure on the Taliban. “Our message to the enemy is that you cannot win the war. It's time to lay down your arms and enter into a reconciliation process,” Nicholson said. “If they don't, they're going to be consigned to irrelevance..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Muhajadin ==Taliban == Al Qaeda == ISIS
More proof Obama left the enemy alone whenever he could.
Just so long as we don’t hit a wedding party in the baby milk factory. /s
I hope Ace McCain is mad as Hell. :-)
Obama did much worse than that. He was also actively supplying the Bad Guys with money, equipment and arms. Make NO mistake about that. He engaged in TREASON and that cannot be denied.
Obama and the Clintons are not just bad actors, they are traitors.
What we should do is offer the poppy farmers 20% over market price for raw opium. Let Merk, Pfizer, and whoever else bid for the rights to process it into pharmaceutical grade opioid pain killers. Believe it or not there’s a real shortage of them.
At the same time we turn every single illicit processing facility into rubble and kill every single person working there. Target the financiers and logistics people for death.
Starve them of cash and deprive them of the raw materials for their heroin. Make the pressure relentless and merciless.
But that would actually make sense. So it won’t be done.
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More proof Obama left the enemy alone whenever he could.
If anyone needs to see more proof that America's FIRST Muslim President was a traitor, then they were NOT paying attention to Hussein Obama's treasonous actions during his entire eight years.
What would a Muslim terrorist do if he were made President? The simple answer is exactly what Hussein Obama did.
Is there any doubt, at all, whose side that traitorous POS was on? Everything he did was to screw the US.
True. However let's no forget his pal, "The Compassionate Conservative". You know the one. He's the guy who let the mountain redoubt backdoor open for Bin Laden to escape.
Oxycodone HCI = Heroin... it is made from Afghan poppies and sold to the American public at alarming rates...there is a shortage because so many people are addicted to it...they can’t make it fast enough.
Hope they kill all the growers and make it so horrible that no one will ever want to go back.
Gotta buy it and destroy it over there. Middle men will get violent but it’s the closest thing to direct aid that helps the poor.
Under President Barack Obama, U.S. commanders were barred from conducting offensive airstrikes against the Taliban.
obama shows who he supports. The terrorists.
I don’t trust anybody in Afghanistan. If those poppies are good stuff, make it legal for somebody to grow them here under lock and key in the civilized part of the world. Bomb the goat-humpers and their poison and their death cult into dust.
The article says that only 4% of the heroin in the U.S. comes from Afghanistan. We’ve got to build the wall to stop the lion’s share, which is coming from Mexico.
Doing the job Obama wouldn’t do.
Not fair! Just because America has the power to destroy its enemies, doesn’t mean that they should!
Dis be racis!
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