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Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”
JUDICIAL WATCH
US preparing to send up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”
JUDICIAL WATCH
By Jordan Shilton
17 June 2017
17 June 2017
Secretary of
Defence James “Mad Dog” Mattis is set to announce the deployment of up to 5,000
additional troops to wage war in Afghanistan in the coming weeks, following a
decision Tuesday by President Trump granting Mattis authority to set troop
levels.
The move
will mark a dramatic escalation of the longest war in US history, which has
already claimed the lives of thousands of US troops and hundreds of thousands
of Afghan civilians, and is increasingly developing into a wider regional
conflict.
The additional
forces are desperately needed to prop up Washington’s crisis-ridden puppet
regime in Kabul, which is facing an ever-expanding insurgency led by the
Taliban. According to conservative estimates, the Islamist group controls
around 40 percent of Afghan territory and is initiating new offensive
operations.
Mattis
acknowledged in congressional testimony this week that the outlook for US
imperialism in Afghanistan is bleak. “We are not winning in Afghanistan right
now,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee, before vowing to change that
“as soon as possible.” In what was clearly a criticism of the Obama
administration’s drawdown of troops in Afghanistan to the current level of some
9,800, Mattis went on, “It’s going to require a change in our approach from the
last several years.”
As well as
sending more US forces, Washington is expected to urge its NATO allies to step
up their troop commitments. There are currently approximately 5,000 NATO forces
deployed in the country.
The corrupt,
widely-hated government of President Ashraf Ghani is barely able to exert its
authority outside the capital, and even there suicide bombings and other
militant attacks occur regularly. A massive suicide bomb exploded two weeks
ago, claiming the lives of at least 90 people in the embassy district of Kabul.
On Thursday,
a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the capital claimed a further two
lives.
The Afghan
armed forces, which has been trained and equipped at a cost of billions of
dollars, is struggling to cope with the insurgency. Last weekend, three
American soldiers died when a Taliban sympathizer, who had infiltrated the
army, opened fire on them during a training exercise.
Casualty
rates among Afghan troops are high, as shown by figures documenting over 800
deaths in the first two months of 2017. In April, the Taliban launched its
bloodiest attack since the beginning of the war, killing some 200 Afghan
military personnel at an army base in the north of the country.
While the additional US troops to be deployed will be officially
designated as “advisers” to the Afghan forces, it is clear that they will
increasingly engage in combat operations. A New York Times report
on Tuesday noted that proponents of the deployment hoped that the personnel
increase would enable US forces to “advise” their Afghan counterparts closer to
the frontline of battle. They are also urging an expansion of the use of US air
power to strike more targets.
In Iraq and
Syria, similar special forces “advisers” have directed fighting and conducted
artillery barrages, including with illegal weapons such as white phosphorus, on
civilian centers such as Raqqa and Mosul, leading to the deaths of thousands of
innocent residents. Trump’s decision earlier this year to grant more latitude
to commanders on the ground to carry out operations is now being repeated in
Afghanistan and will have similar results.
The
expansion of the air war can only add to the carnage. Just two months ago, the
US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on a remote mountainous region in the
east of the country in what was clearly meant as a warning to its geopolitical
rivals and a sign of its determination to use all methods to retain its control
over Afghanistan. The bomb was dropped on the eve of Russian-sponsored peace
talks with the Taliban.
According to
US Air Force statistics, the pace of air strikes has already intensified. More
strikes have been conducted over the past four months than at any time since
the summer of 2014.
Launched in
the wake of 9/11 under the bogus pretext of the “war on terror,” Washington
intervened in Afghanistan above all to cement its geostrategic hegemony in the
strategically crucial Central Asian region. Control over Afghanistan places the
US in close proximity to the energy-rich former Soviet republics to the north,
and within striking distance of its main rivals for regional dominance: China,
Russia and Iran.
These
broader considerations were underscored in an interview given to PBS by retired
General David Petraeus, who served as commander of US forces in both Afghanistan
and Iraq. He referred to news of the latest troop deployment as “heartening,”
before insisting that the US had to remember why they had intervened. “This is
a generational struggle. This is not something that is going to be won in a few
years,” he declared, before making a comparison with the US presence in Europe
following World War II or in Korea following the Korean War.
The New York Times, in a typical war-mongering
editorial, urged Trump to assume responsibility for the 16-year-old conflict,
declaring, “Mr. Trump, Afghanistan is your war now.”
The immanent
escalation of the Afghan war will only lead to a deepening of the crisis
confronting US imperialism. Even pro-war stalwarts like Republican Senator John
McCain were compelled to point out during Mattis’s Senate testimony earlier
this week that the Trump administration has yet to present a strategic plan for
Afghanistan.
Mattis vowed
to present the strategy by mid-July, but promised to take interim measures,
which could include the troop deployment, to halt what he referred to as a
Taliban “surge.”
The Times noted that the development of an Afghan
strategy is being complicated because discussions in Washington have been
widened to include the US stance towards neighbouring Pakistan, which has long
provided a safe haven for Taliban fighters and other Islamist militants like
the Hakani Network.
Tensions
between Pakistan and Afghanistan are high. In May, at least a dozen people died
when clashes broke out between the two countries over their disputed border.
Without citing evidence, Afghan officials accused Pakistan of being involved in
the Kabul suicide bombing that killed 90 earlier in June. Kabul and Islamabad
have traded accusations of backing terrorist groups, with Afghanistan accusing
Pakistan of assisting the Taliban-aligned Hakani Network. In turn, Islamabad
has charged that the Pakistan Taliban enjoys aid from its neighbor.
At the same
time, Washington’s relations with Pakistan, which were close throughout the
Cold War, have deteriorated as the US has moved over recent years to woo India
as a strategic partner as it seeks to encircle and isolate China in the
Asia-Pacific. This has included partnership agreements between the US and
Indian militaries and efforts to encourage New Delhi to assert its regional
authority. Pakistan has reacted with deepening concern and increasingly looked
to China for economic and trading relations. Tensions have surged between India
and Pakistan over recent months, raising the danger of war between south Asia’s
nuclear rivals.
The Trump administration’s strategic review, according to the Times,
has thus also had to consider how Washington can manage tensions between
Islamabad and New Delhi, with the result that “the Afghan review has turned
into a larger review of American policy towards Southwest Asia.”
This only
underscores the reckless character of US imperialism. As it escalates the
conflict in Afghanistan, plans are already well advanced to ensure it can
retain its unchallenged hegemony throughout Central and South Asia, a strategy
which raises the prospect of a wider military conflagration, potentially with
nuclear-armed adversaries.
THE LA RAZA
SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY HELL BENT ON OPEN BORDERS AND EXPANDING THE MEX
WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!
HISPANIC FAMILY VALUES: Mexican flag wavers loot
the stupid gringo for billions!
Mexico’s massive looting in our open borders:
How America surrendered
to Mexico’s invasion, occupation and looting.
The Mexican drug cartels
now control most of America’s southern borders as LA RAZA “The Race” fascist
party expands Mexico’s anchor baby welfare state from border to open border.
HEROIN: are you addicted
yet? 1 in 7 Legals are!
Mexico’s Gift to
Occupied Aztlan America!
The LA RAZA drug cartels
haul back $40 - $60 BILLION from heroin sales.
IMMANENT COLLAPSE THE PENA-NIETO
REGIME AND FALL TO THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS ON AMERICAN OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS.
More significant still, a
former Mexican official, Jorge CastaƱeda, threatened to unleash
Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal
immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
“Mexico in a country whose
four wealthiest
billionaires control as much wealth as the
bottom half of the population—the 65 million
that live in poverty (which includes 13 million
living in extreme poverty)—and where the top
10 percent as a whole accounts for 67 percent
of Mexico’s national wealth.”
billionaires control as much wealth as the
bottom half of the population—the 65 million
that live in poverty (which includes 13 million
living in extreme poverty)—and where the top
10 percent as a whole accounts for 67 percent
of Mexico’s national wealth.”
THE
TRUMP WALL LIE! WAS IT THE FIRST BROKEN PROMISE?
"If true, it
shows Trump being the ultimate cynic and not having
the courage to state his true beliefs to the American public who
elected him. That's always been my biggest problem with Trump:
his lack of integrity and consistent belief system." ----- ED
STRAKER
the courage to state his true beliefs to the American public who
elected him. That's always been my biggest problem with Trump:
his lack of integrity and consistent belief system." ----- ED
STRAKER
TRUMP BACK-PEDDLES ON LEGALS AND
KEEPS
OBAMA’S ILLEGAL AMNESTY OPERATING…. It’s all about
keeping wages DEPRESSED!
TRUMP
FOLDS TO LA RAZA MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT
Says
the “WALL” will now be only “NO TRESSPASSING” signs posted every hundred miles!
“He's showing more empathy for illegal aliens than he is
for American citizens. Shouldn't it be the concerns of Americans he
should be considering first, before the feelings of illegals? These
people are taking taxpayer money and American jobs, some committing crimes, and
many are not assimilating and speaking English, and Trump wants them to stay?”
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