Why are we still fighting in Afghanistan?
Six months from now we will have had the U.S. Army deployed to Afghanistan for 18 years, or 4 1/2 times as long as World War II lasted.
In World War II, we deployed 16 million troops to North Africa, Europe and a swath of the Pacific, working our way to Okinawa and Japan proper, and dropped the second atom bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. We went to and fought on three continents — Africa, Europe and Asia — and crossed two oceans to do it. World War II only took us 3 3/4 years to fight.
Now, we’re still in Afghanistan, a nation smaller then Texas, Why? Is it their Opium? Could this be the source of our opioid death increase? After all, we usually go to war and invade nations for corporations.
Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, yet, we invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Where’s the logic?
On December 1, 2009, President Obama deployed 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion or a million dollars a troop. The late 1800s and all of the 1900s has been America’s century of regime change in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Grenada, Chile, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Spain was believed to have sunk the Battleship USS Maine while anchored at Havana Harbor. Thus began the Spanish-American War. Of course, it was all a farce.
Now, Trump is eyeing up Venezuela as a fixed election and is asking for regime change. Since Venezuela is so rich in oil resources, I wonder which of our oil companies is bribing Trump into such a foolish move. Just as the president of Venezuela is not required to like Trump, Trump is not required to like him. John Bolten said it outright on Fox News a few weeks ago, we can use their oil, as if to imply it’s ours to use.
Randy Warnick
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