Why Are We Still In Afghanistan?

[Minimalist]

This article asks sobering questions.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40916...tem-itself

Why Afghanistan? Fighting a War for the War System Itself

President Donald Trump is hesitating to agree to thousands of additional troops for the war in Afghanistan as recommended by his secretary of defense and national security adviser, according to a New York Times report over the weekend.

So, it's a good time to put aside, for a moment, the troop request itself and focus on why the United States has been fighting the Taliban since 2001 -- and losing to them for well over a decade.

The link to the Times story is active.  Just like Vietnam, the illusion of military "victory" keeps us reaching for the brass ring.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because terrorists, bro! Since the US/Coalition forces have been in Afghanistan, not a single westerner has been killed by a dead Afghani. Duh.

Boru

[dyresand]

The war in Afghanistan needs to end because were just wasting time there.

https://news.vice.com/story/afghanistan-...into-chaos

What ever happened to diplomacy we need more of that than
shoving a foot up some country's ass. Because diplomacy is better
and a quot from my favorite general Churchill "“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”"

At this point.. Afghanistan.. is pretty much a lost cause.. and i hate to say that but it really is.

[Chad32]

Because knowing that the problem we were supposedly trying to solve has gotten worse does not mean anything to the people running the show. Same for other things, like the drug war.

[Silver]

It's the same as two feuding families who no longer remember why they are even fighting against one another.

Humanity, at it's military core, is fucking retarded.

[Minimalist]

Because terrorists, bro!  Since the US/Coalition forces have been in Afghanistan, not a single westerner has been killed by a dead Afghani.  Duh.

Boru

Yeah - it's the live fuckers you have to watch out for.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-s...d=47983231

3 US soldiers killed in insider attack in Afghanistan identified

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of our soldiers who were killed and wounded," said Gen. John W. Nicholson, the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, in a statement on Monday.

Oh, thanks general.... that will do a metric fuckton of good.

[vorlon13]

they would have to advance 1500 years to come up to a fucking third world shithole level

otta fucking conquer 'em and drag them kicking and screaming up to the renaissance at least

[dyresand]

It's the same as two feuding families who no longer remember why they are even fighting against one another.  

Humanity, at it's military core, is fucking retarded.

It's not a problem of humanity it's  a problem of greed at this point.

[Minimalist]

Greed.  Religion.  Tribalism.  Xenophobia. 

Remember what Kipling wrote in 1895.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

The place is, was, and always will be, a fucking shithole.

[The Valkyrie]

It's all Alexander's fault.

He started the Western trend of interfering in that dump. And it just keeps on and on.

Bastard!