Oligarchy will not let us withdraw from Afghanistan — Deep State's "bounty" story gains traction — in Congress's gibbering monkey house

© 2020 Peter Free

 

03 July 2020

 

 

The best thing that could happen to the United States would be . . .

 

 . . . a deadly virus that exclusively targets national politicians:

 

 

[T]he House Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday night to put roadblocks on President Donald Trump’s vow to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan,

 

apparently in response to bombshell report published by The New York Times Friday that alleges Russia paid dollar bounties to the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill U.S troops.

 

Despite at least three serious flaws with that reporting, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment was approved 45-11.

 

The Crow amendment would block funding if the U.S. draws down below 8,000 troops and again below 4,000 troops[:]

 

“unless the administration certifies that doing so would not compromise the U.S. counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan,

 

not increase risk for U.S. personnel there,

 

be done in consultation with allies,

 

and is in the best interest of the United States,”

 

reports The Hill.

 

“It would also require an analysis on the effects of a drawdown on the threat from the Taliban,

 

the status of human and civil rights,

 

an inclusive Afghan peace process,

 

the capacity of Afghan forces

 

and the effect of malign actors on Afghan sovereignty.”

 

© 2020 Barbara Boland, House Using Shaky Russian Bounty Story To Keep U.S. Troops In Afghanistan, American Conservative (02 July 2020) (reformatted)

 

 

In other words, we will redo what we've done over and over again

 

Nothing like continuing to beat a decomposing horse.

 

(Is that its head over there, Bro?)

 

Losers don't get to dictate the terms of their losing.

 

Witness Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria . . . .

 

 

Consider this Congress-sponsored lack of brain

 

We're in a strategically losing situation in Afghanistan. Have been for more than a decade.

 

Prez wants to remove some troops.

 

To counter, the Deep State invents a third round of Russiagate to stop him. Namely, that Russia is paying the Taliban to kill US troops.

 

 

Conveniently forgetting (as we always do) that we not only paid the Taliban to kill Russians during the 1980s, but armed and trained them, as well.

 

Thereby, creating the same "insurgent" menace that we are still fighting ourselves.

 

Talk about typically boomeranging American strategizing.

 

 

House Democrats accept the new Deep State lie.

 

So now, we will probably stay in Afghanistan for the rest of the century.

 

Just to piss off the Russians. And prove what "men" we are.

 

While, at the same, literally and metaphorically shooting our own legs off on a daily basis.

 

 

Yup, this makes sense

 

Sun Tzu would be proud.

 

 

The moral? — Vote for Trump because he's sometimes less lunatic than his adversaries?

 

Could be, Cassandra.