President Trump has approved a plan to send 4,000 U.S. soldiers to risk their lives in Afghanistan, fighting Islamic terror and guarding the most valuable opium crop on the planet, which happens to be sitting atop $1 trillion in untapped resources. Where we’ve been for 15 years.
Let’s get out of Afghanistan. Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train and we waste billions there. Nonsense! Rebuild the USA.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2013
We’re goin’ in!
“My original instinct was to pull out — and, historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office; in other words, when you’re President of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David, with my Cabinet and generals, to complete our strategy.” –President Trump
Address to the Nation
Full Video & Transcript:https://t.co/FELdImTuUM pic.twitter.com/6ly3fNatiX— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2017
But hey, if shit talking Marco Rubio’s happy – Trump’s happy.
Who else is happy? #NeverTrumpers Lindsey Graham and John McCain!
Between Afghanistan and Syria @realDonaldTrump is showing the WILL to stand up to Radical Islam…
….unlike President Obama.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 22, 2017
I commend @POTUS's new strategy for #Afghanistan. We must move past last admin's failed policy of postponing defeat. https://t.co/ExDC4JqkHi pic.twitter.com/zZGqrkSD9i
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 22, 2017
Let’s be fair though – a lot can change in 7 months. For example, one might run for President on a non-interventionist, America 1st platform – railing against your globalist opponent and the ‘never ending wars’ they support.
THEN, after winning said presidency – two major players on your anti-war / America 1st platform who convinced a ton of like-minded Americans to vote – Flynn and Bannon – might get railroaded out of the West Wing, along with any other pesky patriots. In their stead, you’d find yourself flanked by Goldman Sachs, Patraeus protege H.R. McMaster, and the very liberal Jared and Ivanka.
Coincidentally – you might be convinced by those around you, despite your ‘original instinct,’ that sending 4,000 more kids to Afghanistan is a good idea.
Trump had three choices…
A full-scale pullout, similar to the one that created the vacuum in Iraq when Obama was at the helm, a troop increase – H.R. McMaster’s plan, or a scaling Afghanistan back to a smaller, leaner footprint – a move supported in July by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and reportedly Steve Bannon.
Via Breitbart
“Right now, the U.S. is spending more than when there were five times as many troops in country,” Prince pointed out. “We’re spending more than the entire U.S. infrastructure budget in Afghanistan. I think the president is looking for a more America First focus, and not what amounts to a large wealth transfer to Afghanistan.”
So the neocons love this idea. Who doesn’t?
Mike Flynn Jr., for starters.
I can think of better things to spend BILLIONS possibly TRILLIONS on besides more war…#BorderWall #Education for starters….
— Michael Flynn Jr?? (@mflynnJR) August 22, 2017
Trump campaigned on, "We never win wars anymore! We're going to start WINNING!" Strategy sounds like same conventional crap we've been doing
— Michael Flynn Jr?? (@mflynnJR) August 22, 2017
Neither does Ron Paul
Beware! @LindseyGrahamSC loves Trump's speech! Why are arch-neocons celebrating so much? Very telling!
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) August 22, 2017
Nor do many of the pundits who convinced countless voters to show up at the polls:
Who's going to pay for it? What is our measure of success? We didn't win with 100K troops. How will we win with 4,000 more? https://t.co/XHj9GpJzaZ
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 22, 2017
We must always fight nations which allow and sponsor terrorism!*
*Unless it is Saudi Arabia – then we sell them $350 billion in weapons. https://t.co/bQg20GKEjb
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) August 22, 2017
Trump's vague speech is the McMaster plan which Eli Lake reported on in detail in May.https://t.co/DAJKtDgeJp
— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) August 22, 2017
General Jared. pic.twitter.com/8oI9MVULqf
— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) August 22, 2017
Seems like the only big difference from Obama on Afghanistan is Pakistan policy.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 22, 2017
Alas,
Gonna let this play out. Again. So many new listen to me douche bags calling for the end of the world. “Kids”. Fuck off with that shit.
With Trump getting McCain’s, Graham’s, Little Marco’s et al. endorsement, you know the game’s over. They’ve got him by the balls. He’s now theirs. Fat lady can now come out and commence with singing swan song.
Libertarians, the worst of both worlds when it comes to the military.
I thought Trump was going to announce a war with China and that India had been awarded the contract.
Here’s how I see Afghanistan. A lot of people don’t understand the Jihadis. They’re waging an asymmetric war. Playing Backgammon against our game of Chess.
It’s called Backgammon because you play from the back, you withdraw to your home board and with patience suddenly break out when conditions and chance can be used to your favour. It’s non-deterministic, but a skilled player can win consistently. Figure that one out – I’ve witnessed it first hand.
It’s the most popular game in the Arab world – played in every coffee house and they are masters at it.
Afghanistan is the Jihadi’s home board and knocking out Europe and the United States is their goal.
I don’t yet see how the US can withdraw from Afghanistan and win against the Jihadis; nor do I see how the US can stay in Afghanistan and win against the Jihadis. This is a classic conundrum against a skilled opponent in Backgammon.
I am sure that Trump has genuinely tried to examine every option, as has the Pentagon, but they are caught in this conundrum and just can’t solve it.
Sorry cuckpots. Your Oranged God is a fraud. You really thought he was going to disobey the shiny Generals that surround him? Shocking.
https://youtu.be/XJlU_d186TU
The next, and perhaps more consequential, Trump surrender to warmongering neocons to watch for is in Syria.
The idiot Trump’s mention of Pakistan has served to get them stoked against us and has driven China to their defense. Great job Don.
Is there any mess that this guy cannot make worse. https://tribune.com.pk/
THE UNITED STATES COMPANY 1871, formerly, The United States of America 1776, is not a nation of people with a Government for the people, by the people, it is a Banker’s Criminal Organization with a Government assigned to running the criminal enterprises, especially the wars, and millions of people to clean the streets and through whom the gross amount of wealth is laundered.
You see, if the other people on Earth ever really knew what is going on with this land of the free, home of the brave, they might just decide to not put up with it anymore, and, even, do something about it.
The Christian Church, a major player in the criminal endeavors, along with the European Royalty, led by the Banker King in England, the Christian church, its headquarters in the Vatican is knee deep in the blood and guts, so much so it is turning away from its thousand years old front and turning against the Christians who really took the message seriously. Nothing to worry about though, the Christians not so much turning the other cheek are turning their faces away from what the church is really all about, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, against the church. Christians, are on top of the world right now, literally, they have their ball games, their booze, their drugs, their check in the mail, a promise of eternal life after the grave, hey, it is all good.
I don’t know about you but I don’t think it is a good idea to trust a bunch of criminals with my life, with the life of the people I love, do you? Trouble is, there is nothing any of us can do about it, not until the rest of the world decides it has had enough and I don’t see that happening for a long time. I do see the Banker King and his criminal gang(s) getting tired of putting that check in the mail, of putting up with a bunch of Christians who like the criminals they support just want more and more of the Earth’s bounty, so the whole world just cannot satisfy such greed as these people have.
I see an end to the comfortable relationship the people and their criminal government have, a matter of greed tearing the whole setup apart. Even now you can see the attitudes changing, the chosen ones changing, the skin of the people getting darker, the religion of the people getting darker, the criminals who are the government doing less and less to support and protect the old majority, the old chosen ones, now in disfavor. I smell a change coming and it is a foul odor, to say the least.
Herbert McMaster is a member of the Rockefeller CFR along with Bill Clinton, John McCain and George Soros. See lists in the CFR annual report.
You’re right, John, Herbert McMaster’s a member of the Rockefeller CFR, along with Bill Clinton, John “Songbird” McCain and the Satanic George Soros.
All of them belong behind bars with NO chances of parole .. However, Soros must be extradited either to Hungary or Russia. I prefer his extradition to Russia, wherein Vladimir Putin can imprison him in Siberia for the rest of his evil life. The rest can be sent to Gitmo, wherein they can spend their lives.