Certainly this sounds like good news, a chance to end the United States' longest overseas war, one that has cost nearly $1 trillion and some 100,000 lives-a war that, in its 17th year, even the foreign policy elite admit "Cannot be won".
"A hasty American withdrawal, experts said, would erode the authority and legitimacy of the Afghan government" and "Could consign Afghanistan to a protracted, bloody civil war," veteran national security reporters Mark Landler, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt wrote.
Lamenting what it considered a deal brokered "Mostly on the enemy's terms," it proclaimed that "An end to the Afghan war is desirable, but not at the expense of everything the United States has helped to build there since 2001.".
A permanent war state with an ever-expanding array of military bases across the globe ensures imperial hegemony and ensures record-breaking profits for private military contractors.
Often forgotten among those who advocate for forever wars is that these very wars are the greatest contributor to chaos and instability in the first place, with Iraq as a prime example.
Accordingly, media must grapple with a stark fact: The 17-year US war in Afghanistan has drastically escalated violence in the country.
Although under these circumstances, Trump would likely claim credit for "Ending" the US war in Afghanistan, this scenario would not constitute an actual end to US military intervention.
https://fair.org/home/media-rally-around-forever-war-in-afghanistan/
"A hasty American withdrawal, experts said, would erode the authority and legitimacy of the Afghan government" and "Could consign Afghanistan to a protracted, bloody civil war," veteran national security reporters Mark Landler, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt wrote.
Lamenting what it considered a deal brokered "Mostly on the enemy's terms," it proclaimed that "An end to the Afghan war is desirable, but not at the expense of everything the United States has helped to build there since 2001.".
A permanent war state with an ever-expanding array of military bases across the globe ensures imperial hegemony and ensures record-breaking profits for private military contractors.
Often forgotten among those who advocate for forever wars is that these very wars are the greatest contributor to chaos and instability in the first place, with Iraq as a prime example.
Accordingly, media must grapple with a stark fact: The 17-year US war in Afghanistan has drastically escalated violence in the country.
Although under these circumstances, Trump would likely claim credit for "Ending" the US war in Afghanistan, this scenario would not constitute an actual end to US military intervention.
https://fair.org/home/media-rally-around-forever-war-in-afghanistan/
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