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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: The Afghan War was a Complete Scam We absolutely needed to invade and occupy these people. For their precious resources
erm, rather, for their industrial capacity
for their opium? Whatever. It was important. The Afghan war is one of the most absurd conflicts that America has ever engaged in. Weve been occupying this country for almost 20 years now, with no tangible benefits and no meaningful explanation as to why. The initial excuse was that Osama Bin Laden was hiding there, so we had to invade the entire country to find that one guy. Yet with Bin Laden long dead, the occupation still goes on, and the cost and death toll is still climbing. Whats going on? To make matters worse, it turns out that even this bleak and absurd situation is actually a complete white-washing the government has been fudging the numbers and lying about the situation for years, and the situation is actually even worse than what wed previously thought. The Guardian: Hundreds of confidential interviews with key figures involved in prosecuting the 18-year US war in Afghanistan have revealed that the US public has been consistently misled about an unwinnable conflict. Transcripts of the interviews, published by the Washington Post after a three-year legal battle, were collected for a Lessons Learned project by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), a federal agency whose main task is eliminating corruption and inefficiency in the US war effort. The 2,000 pages of documents reveal the bleak and unvarnished views of many insiders in a war that has cost $1tn (£760bn) and killed more than 2,300 US servicemen and women, with more than 20,000 injured. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died in the conflict. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. Let that sink in. Do you have any idea what could be accomplished in America for one trillion dollars? We could have created an electromagnetic space launch ramp for that kind of money. That could, by itself, raise America into the space age. One trillion is enough to build over 100 nuclear power plants. Enough to generously fund cancer research for decades. Enough to give out $12,000 to each and every family in America. And all that money let alone the lives of U.S. soldiers has gone straight down the drain, giving absolutely no benefit to actual Americans. No wonder theyre lying about the war. The documents have echoes of the Pentagon Papers the US militarys secret history of the Vietnam war that were leaked in 1971 and told a similarly troubling story of the cover-up of military failure. Negotiations are taking place between the Trump administration and the Taliban as the US debates whether to withdraw 13,000 troops who remain in Afghanistan. The interviews were collected, beginning in 2014, in addition to Sigars regular audits to identify what could be learned from successive policy failures in Afghanistan. Its very hard to believe that the disaster in Afghanistan is due to policy failure. After all, theres a very simple policy that could have avoided all these problems get the hell out of there. But for mysterious reasons, weve always stuck there seemingly for no good reason. You can be sure that theres secret, unsavory reasons why America is occupying Afghanistan. Ive heard various theories, from an oil pipeline, to opium production, and I dont know what the reality is. Most probably, its the Jews. They likely invaded and remained simply because it is close to Iran, and they want it for a staging ground for an invasion of that country. If there wasnt some nefarious Jew reason behind all this, they wouldnt have needed to lie through their teeth for all these years. Two major claims in the documents are that US officials manipulated statistics to suggest to the American public that the war was being won and that successive administrations turned a blind eye to widespread corruption among Afghan officials, allowing the theft of US aid with impunity. The long-term nature of the manipulation of statistics was detailed in an interview with an individual identified only as a senior National Security Council official. It was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture, the official told interviewers in 2016. The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war. The papers depict the view of many people of a conflict with vague and unachievable war aims, pursued under three US presidents, George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, whose alleged successes were presented repeatedly in inflated terms. In one scathing assessment Douglas Lute, a lieutenant general who served as the White House Afghan war tsar during the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations, told interviewers in 2015: We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan we didnt know what we were doing. Claiming incompetence is always the last line of defense of corrupt government officials. We used up a trillions dollars of taxpayer money for mysterious purposes, but it was just because we had no idea what we were doing nothing to see here! The people responsible for this need to be executed for high treason the damage theyve caused to America is incalculable and inexcusable. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
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And in other news, water is found to be wet.
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