What is the real reason Trump suddenly wants to go at war with Afghanistan?
Could it be China influence or is it to prepare for war with Iran? A distraction from the failure to be able to confront North-Korea?
What is the real reason Trump suddenly wants to go at war with Afghanistan?
Joseph Murphy
Noah Gray
Just Taliban? Pretty sure IS is our main issue there.
Counting just one single splinter group is a retarded comparison against the whole of U.S.
Asher Thomas
Actually, now that I check, it seems far fewer over the past 16-17 years than in a single year compared to yours.
Brayden Rodriguez
Or just LARPing. Need to test new weapons systems somewhere.
Kevin Parker
casualties also includes wounded, sick etc. still it seems too high
Brody Carter
Opiates my nigga
Christopher Miller
This graph is so disingenuous. US soldiers is measured cumulative each year overall. The taliban numbers seem to be each years total KIA. Bad graph. Obviously meant to be misleading.
Hunter Cook
cull the millennial gen z herd and draft them all into a losing war.
Grayson Hill
us foreign policy is predicated of fomenting chaos
afghanistan is a strategic location in the middleast and things would be fucked up big time if someone, anyone, were to establish hegemony in the region
Benjamin Wood
OP's graph is imaginary figures best I can tell.
Al Jazeera IS propaganda bullshit.
Jacob Williams
Not enough bases in Middle East.
Daniel Powell
Its a way to unite the interests of the people. Both left and right want to invade Afghanistan. So be it I say.
Josiah Flores
its special forces ,they will excecute everyone who will not bend the knee,time of playing nice is over.
Noah Green
This Nazi is right. Also I don't like how Iran put their borders so close to our bases. We can't let this aggression go unchecked.
Josiah Lewis
Is that real are americans really so bad at fighting hahaha fuck
Christopher Barnes
Don't make us do it to you again Hans.
Caleb Thomas
Probably trying to keep the NATO afloat ?
It looks to me like the EU beancounters are trying to dismantle it so they can proceed more aggressively with their EU army shit.
Bentley Phillips
ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China
2015: journal-neo.org
"The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months. While the US and NATO continue to be actively involved in the country – their strategic objectives having changed very little since the Bush administration launched the war nearly a decade and a half ago – the complexion of the battlefield, and the parties actively engaged in the war, has changed significantly.
"The emergence of ISIS in Afghanistan, along with the impending withdrawal of US-NATO troops from the country, has driven the Taliban into a marriage of convenience, if not an outright alliance, with Iran.
What seemed like an unfathomable scenario just a few years ago, Shia "Iran’s support for the hardline Sunni Taliban has become a reality due to the changing circumstances of the war.
Though it may be hard to believe, such an alliance is now a critical element of the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
But its significance is far larger than just shifting the balance of power within the country.
"Instead, Afghanistan is now in many ways a proxy conflict between the US and its western and Gulf allies on the one hand, and Iran and certain non-western countries, most notably China, on the other.
If the contours of the conflict might not be immediately apparent, that is only because the western media, and all the alleged brainiacs of the corporate think tanks, have failed to present the conflict in its true context. "The narrative of Afghanistan, to the extent that it’s discussed at all, continues to be about terrorism and stability, nation-building and “support.” But this is a fundamental misunderstanding and mischaracterization of the current war, and the agenda driving it.
"And what is this new and dangerous agenda? It is about no less than the future of Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Chase Kelly
2017:
Afghanistan
theduran.com
The US war in Afghanistan is now approaching its 16th anniversary and Donald Trump’s recently announced ‘troop surge’ looks to only prolong the conflict. This is for all intents and purposes, a war which has seen front-line US combat troops engaged in battle for a longer period of time than America’s primary phase in Vietnam between the Gulf of Tonkin false flag of 1964 and America’s penultimate withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.
The eerie similarities do not end there. US policy in Afghanistan, especially in light of Donald Trump encouraging of India to play a large role in the conflict, is becoming one aimed more at containing the Sino-Pakistan alliance than actually bringing peace to Afghanistan itself.
In this sense, one could compare Trump’s surge to the US bombing of Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While the bombing of a neutral country was justified by the US as necessarily in so far as it would cut supply lines to Vietnamese Communists, the reality is that the US was hellbent on avoiding the creation of a pro-Soviet government in Cambodia.
Ultimately, the US got its wish when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea in 1975.
The extent of US support to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot has been masterfully exposed by Australian journalist John Pilger.
By 1979, after all of Pol Pot’s killings, the country’s regime changed to one that was pro-Vietnamese/pro-Soviet in any case.
The US plan not only failed but failed at great expense to the peoples of South East Asia.
By 1975, Laos too had a pro-Vietnamese/pro-Soviet government...
..the Taliban will not be eliminated from the Pashtunistan region of Afghanistan.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admitted this in a statement that on the face of it, is well reasoned, but one whose overall context is increasingly absurd.
Hunter Davis
this and iran actually
1. to pressure iran while creating chaos - think of it as a pseudo-trade embargo + military readiness against iran (in case they attack greatest ally)
2. area of denial against china - china want that silk road thing going, to link iran, iraq, turkey etc into it; china needs one of these 3 as an ally: pakistan (currently is - we need to fix this), afghanistan (done), turkmenistan (already hates china for ethnic tensions, so nevermind)
Charles Taylor
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