Why did we invade Afghanistan?

Why did we invade Afghanistan?

Why are we still in Afghanistan?

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Opium wars never ended, china and russia are about to complete the new silk road and we are in a race against time.

also, illuminati.

Or they were housing terrorists that were targeting the USA, providing a staging ground for attacks. The Taliban wouldn't allow the US gov to halt these staging grounds, so blah blah blah we had to go there.

opium is valuable

opium is valuable

>Why did we invade Afghanistan?
Because the talibans cracked down hard on opium trade
>Why are we still in Afghanistan?
Opium and rare earths

And war is debt and debt is profit, for some people

oil

98% of the world's heroin.

cuz fucking heroin you dumb nigger

Jews

Jews

To destroy a terror group safe guarded by an Islamist government

turns out its not easy to destroy an Islamic terror group

>Or they were housing terrorists that were targeting the USA, providing a staging ground for attacks. The Taliban wouldn't allow the US gov to halt these staging grounds, so blah blah blah we had to go there.
That's the normie tier explanation though, like Saddams WMD's.

It always about debt, currency and resources. They will find a ''humanitarian'' reason if they want to.

Cuz its an unguarded back door into china.

To debunk this real quick, a large portion of the United States Army is burning down large fields of opium, I was personally on several mission back in 2011-2012 Khandahar province.

Growing marijuanna is perfectly legal, opium is not and opium is being cracked down on and has been for a while, the issue is without enough people its hard to get to alot of places.

Let me repeat once more, unless any of you were there, please do not repeat opium in this thread.

The military precense still there is incredibly low. We stopped doing foot patrols there in around late 2012-2013 and troop numbers have dropped drastically since then.

Basically we are there because we might keep permenant bases such as Khandahar Air Force Base and partially because our government is super incompetent

Inspiro bot knows.

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Jews want us there.

>To debunk this real quick, a large portion of the United States Army is burning down large fields of opium
Burning excess supply so you don't crash the market is not a new thing. Neither is going after people that didn't pay their protection money in time.

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Lithium + your royal drug business.

You can not throw made up graphs at me.
Yes a large portion of opium is from Afghanistan, but to say the US military is helping it, or letting it happen, it is just plain wrong.
I WAS THERE. I helped light the fucking fields on fire. Lots of people did.
Do you want me to post my DD214 to see my deployment time?

KBR and Halliburton. Ecomonic occupation. However, Aghgani gov. is working with us now

You are a literal moron.
We basically operated on our own. If we were driving through the country side, we didnt call in to company to see if the field was allowed to stay or if it was surplus, we just detained the fuckers and burned the field.

>mexican with scottish name

just dont worry about it goy

opium
metals

and a launching pad for invasions/ rebel aid in Iran/Pakistan/Stans(russian underbelly) and china's muslim regions

My guess is we won't leave until Trump or the next in line wins the big one

Also, 13 permenant military bases

>You are a literal moron.
t. good goy that risked his life to defend private (((interests))) on the other side of the world

CIA Jews

poppy fields

Get the fuck out. Go do something to help the movement. Arguing over semantics is the work of a lazy retard who is uncomfortable with taking action otherwise.

Getting paid to shoot musilms?
That is an opportunity of a lifetime.
Good goy? speak fucking english faggot

>Why did we invade Afghanistan?
9/11
>Why are we still in Afghanistan?
Rare earth minerals

nytimes.com/2017/07/25/world/asia/afghanistan-trump-mineral-deposits.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=world/asia
archive.is/dXCwj
nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/asia/afghan-cabinet-blocks-new-mining-laws.html
archive.is/PN9ZD
nytimes.com/2012/09/09/world/asia/afghans-wary-as-efforts-pick-up-to-tap-mineral-riches.html
archive.is/WVuxQ
reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-minerals/trump-ghani-agree-u-s-can-help-develop-afghanistans-rare-earth-minerals-idUSKCN1BX06G
archive.is/NzYXI

What do you suggest I do brown scotsman?

Yeah I added that stuff in there two, call it a double whammy. You have to be dense to think there are countries out there that don't want to annihilate the USA. Afghanistan provided them the land to do that incognito.

Opium.

Do you know that China has most of the mineral rights for rare earth minerals in Afghanistan?
And they are having a very difficult time with it even being worth the money.

Its actually kinda amusing if you think about it.
US moves in clears out the taliban, makes it safe.
Chinks move in and make all the money off it, except that Taliban hate every single foreigner not just westerners so it is kinda blowing up in their face

>people in caves in a landlocked third world shit hole was ever a threat to the US

Tell us some deployment stories Army user.

Gotta keep that heroin flowing.

Nothing really exciting, lots of walking, doing humanitarian work for the villages. Lots of setting up check points and searching people.

Dealing with the people takes a long time to get used to because they are for all intents and purposes living in the stone age.

In the later half on my deployment, all the small outposts in the country where shutting down permenantly because we were pulling out, so within 2 days we had to destroy our entire outpost.
We basically set the entire thing on fire, and burned everything we had and ran around panicked, tossing grenades in the burnpit, just total chaos.
I imagined it fucking terrified the locals.

Near the very end of my deployment (April 2012) at my Battalion FOB, a new unit was coming in, and they had been there about 2 weeks when one of the guys walked off the base in the middle of the night and massacred a bunch of civilians.

We didnt really like the civilians put it was kind of disheartening all of our work went to shit cause of one dickhead.

Gotta round up all that heroin for Obama so he can poison those young straight white males! Gotta make sure they OD or become zombified before they get to cash in on their white privilege!!!

Was in Kandahar 2010-2011 can confirm. Fucking slept directly next to the pool pond.

To make more money. Except this time you spent more than you got.

>146090408
A good start would be not sitting on your ass on a Sup Forums thread complaining about X-is-white semantics.

Go out and participate in what's important. Resist the threats to the movement. Don't be part of the problem.

I was about 10-15km outside KC so I only had to be near it a handful of times, but oh my god that shit smelled worse then decaying bodies no shit.

You should've killed that one guy and hung him

We also took fucking IDF every other night. Meanwhile faggots at leatherneck had an ice cream bar.

>We didnt really like the civilians put it was kind of disheartening all of our work went to shit cause of one dickhead.

I bet he couldn't stand looking at them anymore. What's the punishment for that when you're on the ground?

Im pretty sure he got life in jail.
Military courts are a bit faster then civilian but still fucking pitifully slow

Everytime we went back to KAF for Stryker repairs, I always got shit from random pogs about my facial hair, or i was dirty, or just whiney shit like that.
Like bitch i just slept in mud for 5 weeks, then a hot ass tent for 2 months after then.
t. 11B user

It's quite simple.
Afganistan has the world's largest deposits of Lithium.
Currently 3/4 of the world's open market supply of Lithium is used in the manufacturing of batteries.
It is also a required component in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
We invaded a minor 3rd world nation not to fight imagined "terror", but to insure access to a resource.

Why do you think we are "helping" in Central Africa, the Congo has the largest deposits of Cobalt.
The US need unfettered access to continue production of cell phones, tablets, laptops and the internet of things.

BS.

Weed
Poppy
Oil
Minerals

>We basically operated on our own.

>Military
>Operates on their own
user, you are full of shit.

Im sorry Mr. 3rd world baltic coast shit hole.
Were you on a platoon OP in the middle of nowhere in Khandahar province Panjwayi district?

My platoon did very little missions with other platoons or companies, and ran a decent sized areas operations by ourselves.
This isnt bragging or trying to show something off, it is very common in Infantry platoons in the middle of nowhere

You got your objectives from higher above. Stop bullshitting.

Afghanistan is a good "training ground" to keep soldiers in a constant state of combat readiness. Rotating troops to Afghanistan allows them to develop and maintain skills that will be valuable in future, potential wartime situations.

Really hope the USSR doesnt roll up and occupy you before you can reply next.
This is not an arguement it is a fact of life.
For all intents and purposes we operated on our own.
Maybe you dont understand the English language on what intents and purposes means.
It doesnt mean we walk around killing people and disobeying orders.
It means we were given very general longterm objectives that we had to figure out how to accomplish.
Does that really sound so fucking unbelievable?

Can CIA niggers pass a day without shooting up or something? What's with the heroin addiction and why aren't we burning the fields that create it? Whether it be for physical or moral reasons.

It really does spark the good old almonds because I recall Trump saying he'd increase Military spending on for defense and 'aid' to American soldiers.

Probably the best and only correct answer in the thread

>Muh Russia
Faggot shill confirmed.

Russians are no threat to my country, or most of the world.
But your in a country that nobody on the planet cares about that Russia could take over with 2 tanks and about 40 guys.

Your a cockroach among giants

>Probably the best and only correct answer in the thread

>Probably
>the best
>and only correct answer
Your sentence makes no sense, faggot.

>Im pretty sure he got life in jail.

Well, shit.

you actually believe this? lol

Refer to Fuck off with your "russian card".

Maybe the Livonian order will return and wipe you out then

if your interested the story is pretty fucking strait forward
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bales
You can look for more credible sources but the Kandahar massacre section pretty much covers it.
He almost got the death penalty from what I remember

Maybe you learn not to be so obvious while shilling, faggot.

Because apparently killing sand niggers for heroin is big business

lulz

Opium
Defense lobby for more taxpayer money
Neo-Cons
Power in the region.
1 trillion in minerals such as Lithium crucial for electric cars etc.

>back door into china.
Carry On film when?
Porn film when? Up the Khyber?

More puns please

Your (((overlords))) perpetuate the current global world order at the cost of healthy, virile white men bleeding out in desert shitholes.

America needs to become isolationist again.

Poor deluded meat suit thinks he's saving the world.

To make the Deep State profits from opium. Also to fund black bugets for the intelligence agencies, which do the bidding of the Deep State.

The Chinese have already been patrolling it. They want the rare minerals that Afghanistan has an abundance of. So the US fights the wars and the Chinese profit.

Said nothing about saving the world.
I was giving an informative story about the wartime situation of the country.
Not some unproven conspiracy with 0 evidence like 90% of the this thread

Sometimes it's just a paycheck.

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Why are we still in Germany and Japan?

Germany has a history of being psychopaths that need to be controlled.
They are like a dog that you leave in the house and every time you leave it shits on the floor and chews up your furniture.

Japan, idk maybe just to be close to China and Korea

opium and opium

>le nazis were ebil
Neck yourself

I've researched this boarder crossing since learning about it 10 years ago.

It's pretty fucking Guarded man,

^this^
The "return" of US troops to Afghanistan is the US fuckery with the China-Russia -Iran (Persia) Silk Road 2.0
Washington’s new strategy in Afghanistan aimed against China, expert says
tass.com/world/961256

MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/. A new strategy of the US for Afghanistan affects China’s interests in the region, a leading expert from the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies said on Monday.

"Over the recent time, the administration of (President Donald) Trump has been way too active in initiating hotbeds of tension close to the Chinese borders: in North Korea, and now in Afghanistan," said Adzhar Kurtov, who is also editor-in-chief of the Problemy Natsionalnoy Strategii (National Strategy Issues) magazine.
"..the People’s Republic of China is the main rival of the US on the global arena," Adzhar Kurtov said.
He pointed to Beijing’s "serious plans for cooperation with Afghanistan, including in the economic sector".
"China is active both in the Silk Road Economic Belt project and in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization," Kurtov said.
Destroying these projects or at least weakening their active development is the target of the US administration.

"Washington’s policy in Afghanistan has failed, and a new plan of the US president will not change the situation in the country.
"From the details of the plan that have been voiced, we know that he is planning to beef up the military contingent with 4,000 military," the expert said.
"However, if the US has failed to have the situation in Afghanistan change for the better with its 1,000-strong contingent, who can say for certain that new volunteers will help the process?" he added.
"I believe the US must withdraw from Afghanistan," Adzhar Kurtov said.

My unit was deployed to Uruzgan to train the ANA. During service we were never informed of any ulterior motives, our objective was to train soldiers in weapons, tactics, and peace-keeping operations to enable the Afghani people to take back their land from terrorists.

Us military provides protection for CIA opium.
Fact.

Disinfo shill.
US military provides guns to protect CIA opium.

All graphs are "made up"...
It's a fact the Taliban eliminated the opium ...
As the CIA wanted its cash crop back.

What kind of Fox /CNN cookie cutter bullshit are you pushing?

Do you know where you are?

CIA niggers

>healthy, virile white men bleeding out in desert shitholes.
With genepool left of lard.

it's a mystery

it's a mystery

Poppy and Oil feilds is the official narrative. I think it is part of a global conspiracy to suppress ancient human knowledge from the citizens of that region, and thereby the rest of the world.

This is the exact reason the USSR invaded Afghanistan. They were concerned that the US military had gained valuable real-world experience in Vietnam and wanted to battle-test their own troops.

You've clearly never heard of Mission Command

No

Destroyed perfectly good opium you cunt

the boipucci

>US moves in clears out the taliban, makes it safe.

>Im pretty sure he got life in jail.
not good enough. you need to show the locals that you dismembered him, hang his corpse for them to see that this is not what you are about

because they needed to die, and we had to oblige

Heroin aint gonna ship itself back to the states.