Jihad Watch: The occasionally courageous and insightful Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted Tuesday that if President Trump withdraws American troops from Afghanistan, “there will be another 9/11.” Sounding as tough as he ever does, Graham warned: “You may be tired of fighting radical Islam, but they’re not tired of fighting you.” But that’s not what getting out of Afghanistan would mean. If leaving American troops in Afghanistan until the end of time is the only way we can fight the global jihad, we’re done for.
Graham is ignoring the fact that we’re not really fighting “radical Islam” in Afghanistan as it is, and another 9/11 could happen while we are there. The former chief of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, was asked late last year what the U.S. should do in Afghanistan now. Here is McChrystal’s response:
I don’t know. I wish I did … If we pull out and people like al-Qaeda go back, it’s unacceptable for any political administration in the [United States]. It would just be disastrous, and it would be a pain for us. If we put more troops in there and we fight forever, that’s not a good outcome either. I’m not sure what [is] the right answer. My best suggestion is to keep a limited number of forces there and just kind of muddle along and see what we can do.
McChrystal is not alone. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, said much the same thing: MORE
Record harvest of opium worth BILLIONS.
We got it measured down to the hectare
using spy satellites.
Pull the troops out.
Monitor the area with spies and satellites.
If something starts brewing destroy it with drones.
Hell – that should be our approach everywhere.
BURN THE FUCKING POPPY FIELDS INSTEAD OF GUARDING THEM FOR THE BUSH CABAL.
What is our goal in remaining there?
Specifically what do we intend to accomplish and how are we going about it?
Those two questions need specific and detailed answers if we are to remain there.
Strategically, the place we should have kept a troop presence was IRAQ.
Afghanistan is questionable.
Iraq is central to the Middle East. Has resources galore. A semi-literate populace.
We had a relatively peaceful situation there.
Afghanistan is land-locked, has few resources, high illiteracy.
But when America elected a stupid evil Democrat Muslim to the presidency, those of us that pay attention knew stupid policies would be made. Obama evacuated Iraq, leaving all the gains we made for humanity. Unleashing ISIS. Killing off Christianity in the M.E.
Instead, Obama ramped up the presence in Afghanistan. Why? For what purpose?
If we pull completely out of the Middle East they will do what they have done for centuries and begin to kill each other…we win!
Graham (2.Zero) is so insightful he would have us stay in the ME for a few more decades. But I would disagree with Robert Spencer, Graham is neither courageous or insightful. Even occasionally.
Make our allies and ourselves completely independent of Middle East Oil, and then cut all ties to it, and the rest of the Muslim world
Oil is the only reason we had to put up with their lunacies in the first place, right?
Fit drones with herbicide-spraying & infrared capability.
Fly at night carrying Roundup or another defoliant and a ground sterilant of your choice. Bye Bye poppy fields.
It’d be fun watching Mustafa the Goatfucker trying to grow crops in sterile soil.
Its time we close all our bases in Western Europe as well! Maybe Poland or the Ukraine would like an American Military Base to bolster their economics..
I don’t like to hear we are wasting American lives and treasure for the purpose of “muddling through”