I apologize to readers of this site for again writing about Afghanistan, but for any loyal American with a lick of commonsense, it is clear that since Bush and Cheney started the Afghan War on 7 October 2001, the U.S. government has never once intended to win the war. Indeed, for seven-plus decades U.S. citizens have paid heavy taxes, believing that the loss of money meant to care for their families would be well spent if it made sure their country would win any war it was forced to fight.
The truth is, of course, that in all of those decades the U.S. military won not a single war in which it was engaged. And the wars in which U.S. military was engaged in the period were all unnecessary wars of choice, save for Afghanistan. And in that conflict, the U.S. military’s leaders have shamed themselves forever by not defeating a greatly inferior enemy, though they led a force that exceeded the foe’s capabilities in every category, save the Afghan leaders’ personal and moral courage, smarts, and willingness to kill. Perhaps worse, the U.S. general officer corps, in all these wars, were ready and willing to lead their soldiers and Marines into combat knowing that their presidents had no intention to win the war which, many cases, the administration of the day started.
Now the Afghan War has a new twist. President Trump tried for years to get all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, but failed. Why? Because Bush, Obama, and their generals would neither admit their obvious defeat or redouble efforts to win the war. The U.S. troops killed, wounded, or physically or mentally maimed in Afghanistan never suffered their fate for the defense of liberty at home – which was badly damaged only by U.S. leaders after 9/11 — but merely to satisfy their leaders collective ego and to help them avoid international criticism that they were conducting the war to roughly. The Taliban and its allies surely fired the weapons that caused U.S. casualties, but their continuing ability to do so was exclusively the responsibility of the amoral and warfare-ignorant presidents and general officers commanding U.S. forces.
The new twist is that the abettors of half-wit-Biden had him publicly announce that it might not be possible to get all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan by 5 May 2021. This means they have no intention of bringing the troops home. Moreover, Biden previously had spoken the words of his handlers when he announced that he wants to get the UN involved on the ground to prevent a Taliban victory. In other words, the Neocons and traitor-generals backing Biden want the war to continue and expand in Afghanistan, just as they do in Syria and Yemen.
But there is more to it than that. The reinvigoration of the Afghan war is meant by the Biden administration and the UN – if the Bidenites can rope it into the game – to do China’s dirty work. Beijing’s “Road-and-Belt Project” is a duplicate of Imperial Japan’s plan to create the “East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere” in the 1930s and 1940s. Imperial Japan’s plan was to dominate East Asia – as a start – but, from the word go, Chinese President Xi’s belt-and-road plan has been nothing less than attempt to enable and fuel the Chinese Communist Party’s domination of the world.
President Xi and his Communist party slowly are realizing that their project is running into a wall in China’s western Xinjiang Province, Pakistan, southern Central Asia, and Afghanistan, a region where Beijing, or local governments who will do China’s bidding, must be in full control if the belt-and-road project is to reach Turkey, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Europe. The godless Chinese are trying to exterminate the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, but they will fail in the long run as the Arab world will come to the Uighurs’ aid with money, weapons, and – as in the Soviet Afghan and the U.S.-Taliban wars – talented and experienced volunteer insurgents. Pakistan’s government has allowed China to all but colonize the country in return for money and infrastructure projects, but that too shall pass. The deeply religious Pakistanis eventually will take up arms against the atheist Chinese and what they will see as their own anti-Islam regime in Islamabad.
And then there are the Afghans. As or more deeply Islamic than the Pakistanis, the Afghans will resist the Chinese just as their ancestors effectively resisted Alexander the Great, the British Empire, the Soviet Empire, and America’s tough-talking but foolishly amateurish general officers, men like Petraeus, McRaven, and McChrystal. Moscow, Tehran, Ankara, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states, moreover, have zero strategic interest in allowing China and its military to establish a permanent and powerful military presence in Central Asia and Southwest Asia. As a result, they will provide a steady stream of weaponry and funding to the multiple Afghan insurgent groups with which they are quite familiar in terms of the Afghans’ perseverance, courage, military skills, and, when needed, savagery. Afghan savagery, of course, always comes to the fore when foreign nations seek to occupy their country, and it rises to an even higher level when the occupiers are atheists, like the Soviets were and the Chinese are.
Overall, then, the United States would be well advised to abandon Afghanistan with the utmost speed and do nothing to encourage the deployment of a UN force there. If such a force is created Washington ought to refuse it assistance or any kind. With that done, the United States would be in the catbird seat, and, by simply withdrawing its 2,500 troops and destroying every military facility it built in the country before departing, would have created an enormous and likely fatal snare which will entrap the arrogant, racist, and irreligious Chinese. Gradually, Xi’s regime will be bled white in terms of money, blood, and, when human and financial losses become unbearable, domestic tranquility. Then it will be adios to China’s plan for world domination.
