jpdell33 | -- 08-22-2021 @ 3:43 PM |
As a background reference see my postings on the history of the Deep State in America. The reminders of American retreat from Vietnam are shown every evening. Now here we go again. The pullout from Afghanistan has been a disaster, while not as humiliating as our eviction from Iran or Vietnam, it runs a close third. Did it have to happen? No. Could this have been prevented? Yes. Why did it happen? This is where it gets interesting. As you might recall the Trump Administration struck a deal with the Taliban to be out of country by May. Defense and State should have been totally engaged in a staged withdrawal but somehow that was never done over the year, or was not effective.. Some military was withdrawn but the issues with other Americans in country and our Afghan collaborators took a back seat (and there is some thought that that was deliberate). The Afghan armed forces performed about as well as the South Vietnamese and the Shah of Iran's once venerable armed forces. Zip-squat. Are we really that stupid to have allowed this sort of debacle to occur for a third time or was something else afoot? My fear is that too much of our Military Industrial Complex was resurrected by the trillions being thrown at Afghanistan. They worked with their collaborators in DoD, Sate, and CIA to drag their feet on this process. Hopefully they could buffalo Biden into continuing the mission out of fear of looking weak (a problem of his). They did much the same as they did Bush 43, Obama, and for a while Trump. We went into Afghanistan to take down Al Qaida. We did that but allowed Bin Laden to escape. We took the bulk of his operation to Guantanamo. We should have left Afghanistan by the summer of 2002. We didn't and the mission expanded into nation building and putting a lid on the Taliban. The money started to flow. When the Obama administration finally took out Bin Laden, surely that was another signal to pull chocks and fly out of Afghanistan. We didn't and the money continued to flow with the troop surge that was supposed to take care of things. By the time Trump had settled into office we had already been there 16 years and the money spigot was wide open. To his credit, Trump tried to negotiate his way out and almost did, but he was too distracted by the continual onslaught of the left wing media to make serious headway. With Biden now in office our Military Industrial Complex tried yet again to extend things but Biden had the good sense to say enough was enough. That set the wheels in motion for withdrawal that was probably made a lot messier than it needed to be to make Biden look bad - even to the liberal media. So fed by billions in federal bucks the old deep state Military Industrial Complex made things look bad for the new Clinton Bilderberger Deep State. Meanwhile the Trilateral Commission Deep State of yore continues to bankrupt the world to feed this process. Is the current Deep State just biding its time so they can swoop in the pick up the pieces and start their New World Order? By the way, the only reason that this sort of silliness never happened in Korea is that we've been there in force for 70 years now. As I recall from history much the same happened when Mao-Tse-Tung drove Chiang Kai Shek to Taiwan, and we've been supporting his legacy as long as we have been in Korea. The old curse of living in interesting times may yet rear its ugly head. This message was edited by jpdell33 on 8-22-21 @ 6:58 PM
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bmurphy | -- 08-22-2021 @ 4:16 PM |
Hi A thoughtful well laid out analysis of what is going on with the A mess. Sure is enough blame to go around. At least no US deaths so far. Take care and thanks Bill
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