– Afghanistan pull-out would be ‘to our ultimate peril’: Mattis:
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned that an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be “to our ultimate peril,” weeks after President Donald Trump announced to prolong the Afghan war, which he once described as a “complete waste.”
“Based on intelligence community analysis and my own evaluation, I am convinced we would absent ourselves from this region at our peril,” Mattis said on Tuesday while briefing the US Congress on plans to increase American troop levels in the South Asian country.
The Trump administration recently announced plans to send an additional 3,000 troops to Afghanistan where the US already has 11,000 forces.
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H/t reader squodgy:
“OF COURSE IT WILL.”
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Well, they could integrate with their partners in Afghanistan (U.S. Army) and they could all get high and totally ineffective together.
Endless war. George Orwell.
Of course it will never affect the marijuana or opium poppy fields or the potential new Lithium and Gold mines, will it?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-dropped-751-bombs-in-afghanistan-in-september/5612766