Comments on U.S. Staying in Afghanistan

• America's war in Afghanistan is unwinnable. Unwinnable includes. The term winning has been vaguely referred to as:
  • Creating a democracy. A non-homogeneous country of mostly illiterate members of ethnic groups and tribes, religious fanatics, in a land in which corruption is the standard culture, cannot produce a democracy.  There is not the ethnic coherence.  Afghans are an unruly mix of Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks, and Aimaks, Turkmen, among others. The Taliban are mostly Sunni and ethnic Pashtuns. Most of the population of Afghanistan belong to the same ethnic group as the Taliban.
     
  • Denying al Qaeda a base of operations. Among the arguments for continuing the eight-years of war in Afghanistan  is that it is a war of necessity to prevent al Qaeda a base of operations. But  al Qaeda can operate from others countries, such as Yemen and Somalia. Also, there are so many people wanting to kill Americans, due to the actions of U.S. politicians, that they don't need an central base of operations.
     
  • Training the Afghans to kill other Afghans. Another argument is that the United States train and arms huge numbers of Afghans to fight other Afghans. The early attempts to do this resulted in the newly armed Afghans turning their weapons over to the Taliban.
     
  • Taliban were part of the 9/11 plot and had to be punished. It was not Afghans that attacked the United States; it was Arabs from other countries, some of which had temporally used the remote and uncontrolled area of Afghanistan for training. It was al Qaeda that attacked the United States, and they were Arabs, temporarily located in the remote uncontrolled areas of Afghanistan. The Taliban probably had no knowledge of the planned 9/11 attacks.
     
  • Further, evidence cited in the books, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, Mafia, and al Qaeda, and Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, reveals the corruption of key people in the United States that made it child's play for the terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9/11 and kill nearly 3,000 people. For those willing to exert some mental effort, the same people that are now protecting the United States made the 9/11 and other catastrophic events possible.

    Among the Many Stupid Acts by America's Politicians and Leaders:

• After 9/11, with the help of Afghan warlords, the Taliban was defeated. Instead of finishing the task that could have brought about massive changes in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush pulled out, and engaged in serial lying to gain public support for invading Iraq. That decision:
   
  • Allowed the Taliban to regroup and regain control of a major part of Afghanistan.
     
  • Caused the greatest buildup of people wanting to kill Americans in the history of the United States, a situation that cannot now be reversed for many generations.
     
  • A reported 1 million innocent Iraqis died, and the country that was a firewall against terrorists became a haven for terrorists.
     
  • One of the most westernized countries in the Middle East was reversed to a fanatical religious group.

  Other thoughts:

• The repeated killing of innocent Afghans, mostly women and children, by American military forces, has eliminated any chance of the United States winning the hearts and minds of the Afghans. In the face of this obvious fact, U.S. politicians and leaders repeatedly described U.S. actions as winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.
   
• In 2009, the US war in Afghanistan  had lasted longer than the combination of U.S. involvement in World War I and World War II, with no end in sight. And Taliban forces are gaining control over more parts of Afghanistan.
   
• Any part of Afghanistan that becomes controlled by U.S. forces after heavy causalities would have to permanently be controlled, resulting in continued American casualties, and costs which the United States does not have.
   
• United States troops are seen as invaders, and increasing their numbers would increase the hostility of the Afghan government.
   
• We then killed thousands of innocent Afghans with courageous high-altitude carpet bombings, drove-controlled firing platforms killing groups of innocent women and children to kill a suspected Taliban or al Qaeda operative.
   
• While most Afghans fear the Taliban, they admire the Taliban's honesty and religious piety, while abhorring the corruption of Afghan officials.
   
• There is no money to continue to fight the Taliban. The present costs are borrowed money from countries such as China, communist countries. (Remember the chant by U.S. politicians and the military industrial complex as to Communists being America's greatest enemy!!!)

The Most Practicable Policy At This Stage, Despite the Problems:

• Accept the offer of Afghan warlords to defeat the Taliban, as they did after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. All they want is military weapons and funding. The disadvantages that the continuing-the-losing war section will raise would include, for instance:
   
  • Some warlords have been brutal. Sorry folks, Afghan and other similar countries don't act like pious-sounding religious fanatics in the United States think they do.
     
  • Opium production will continue. This condition existed earlier, and the solution for the drug problem is for the  American drug users to stop using and funding brutal activities throughout the world. Blame those creating the demand, not those seeking to fulfill the demands!
     
  • There won't be a democracy, but some semblance of control would occur, just as Saddam Hussein managed to bring about from groups fighting each other.

This article was written by a former Navy Patrol Plane Commander (PPC) from World War II, a former pilot ferrying wounded GIs from Korean, and a former airline captain involved in living and flying peaceful Muslims from throughout the Middle East to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and with massive amount of information on covert U.S. activities, the following are a few thoughts on U.S. military presence in Afghanistan by former federal agent Rodney Stich.

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