This graphic chart might help illustrate why we went in and why we're still there.
Per the White House web site, Afghanistan is still producing bumper crops every year. See: Poppy Cultivation and Potential Opium Production in Afghanistan
Posted on 03/07/2020 11:29:14 AM PST by Leaning Right
The U.S. government has collected persuasive intelligence that the Taliban do not intend to honor the promises they have made in the recently signed deal with the United States, three American officials tell NBC News, undercutting what has been days of hopeful talk by President Donald Trump and his top aides.
"They have no intention of abiding by their agreement," said one official briefed on the intelligence, which two others described as explicit evidence shedding light on the Taliban's intentions.
Trump himself acknowledged that reality in extraordinary comments Friday, saying the Taliban could "possibly" overrun the Afghan government after U.S. troops withdraw.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
> I thought Dunce Bush assured us that the wonderful Afghan people were “thirsting for freedom and democracy”. <
It’s bad enough that Bush turned what should have been a punitive expedition into a silly nation-building exercise. But he went and invaded a second country - Iraq - before finishing the job in Afghanistan.
It would be as if LBJ had decided to invade Egypt in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Yeah, who the hell would have ever seen this coming?
The Taliban claims that we are there to conquer and take their country.
Why not, then.
Give everybody who wants to settle there 40 acres and a rifle.
Tell people there’s gold there.
We can pull out the majority of our troops and still remain active with drones and military raids.
This will turn into a hell hole. And there are other hell holes. Maybe 50 countries around the world are hell holes. Another 50 are on the brink. We can’t send our troupes in and our weapons to stop every country from being a hell hole. We can only save a few who want to be saved. Afghanistan does not want our help. But they will take our money.
“He threw if anyone thinks winning over there is easy, ask the Russians.”
Like the French in Vietnam....or us.
Have we worn out “duh” yet?
The Taliban agreement never made sense.
I less it is to be used as a reason to utterly destroy them after they break the agreement.
We defeated them in days. Then quit and piddled about for 18 years rather than using the victory to eradicate them completely like de-Nazification after WWII.
We are now in the same position that Europe was back in the late 1920s.
The Nazis weren’t in full control, yet. But their literature made their intentions perfectly clear. They meant to conquer. And they were already going around breaking things and killing people. Few people cared, not until it was too late.
Fast forward to today. Replace “Nazis” with “Islamists” in the above paragraph.
We’ve discussed this many times. When you bomb Afghanistan all you do is move the rubble around.
They should have asked me for the intelligence. I could have told them that.
> We can’t send our troops in and our weapons to stop every country from being a hell hole <
The globalist neocons would disagree, but you are correct. Frederick the Great said it best:
“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
You don’t need intel to figure that out.
They’re Muslims. That’s the only “intel” you need.
Who would think close to twenty years post 9/11 that we are still fighting the “war” and we had a “peace agreement” and it was violated. America has had issues in how to fight and WIN ever since WWII. Think about where we were and what we felt that day and think of where we are now. It’s sickening.
The terrorist enforcers of a 7th century pedophile cult do not intend to act civilized once we leave? I’m shocked!
But see, you are thinking two or three moves behind.
When they break the peace, they can be destroyed. The new rules of engagement allow killing on a grand scale
This graphic chart might help illustrate why we went in and why we're still there.
Per the White House web site, Afghanistan is still producing bumper crops every year. See: Poppy Cultivation and Potential Opium Production in Afghanistan
Well of course they don’t. As soon as we leave theywill take back over at least a portion of the country.
In Afghanistan, the whole country is a hell hole. . . and then there’s Kabul, which is the only place people sort of like us or at least our money.
No one in DC except possibly Trump has any intention of abiding by it either.
The Taliban said they'd hand over Bin Laden if we had proof he was involved in 9/11 which was their way of saying the bribes offered so far are insufficient so bid again.
But, nope, rush over there so the tough neocons in DC could prove that, "By God, we can do what no other nation ever has and take full control of Afghanistan".
Sorta like LBJ wanted to prove that MacArthur was wrong about fighting a land war in Asia.
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