America’s Lost War in Afghanistan
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
On Monday, a surprising Washington Post report headlined:
“The Afghanistan Papers — A secret history of the war. At War With the Truth,” saying:
“US officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.” More on this below.
In its 19th year, endless unwinnable US war in Afghanistan is all about wanting the country used as a land-based aircraft carrier against Russia, China and Iran.
Potentially worth trillions of dollars, it’s about plundering Afghan mineral riches, including its barite, chromite, coal, cobalt, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, enormous amounts of highly-valued lithium and other rare earth metals vital for high tech products, natural gas, oil, precious and semi-precious stones, potash, salt, sulfur, talc and zinc.
It’s about Washington’s strategic plan to control Central Asia’s vast oil and gas resources.
It’s about control sought over Eurasia, what Zbigniew Brzezinski once called the “center of world power extending from Germany and Poland in the East through Russia and China to the Pacific and including the Middle East and Indian subcontinent.”
It’s about drugs trafficking. Afghanistan is the world’s largest opium producer, used to produce heroin and other illicit opioids.
These drugs produce hundreds of billions of dollars in annual revenues – a US government-supported bonanza for corrupt regime officials, the CIA, organized crime and Western financial institutions, heavily involved in money laundering.
Planned long before 9/11, US war in Afghanistan was lost years ago. In 2012, US Lt. Col. Daniel Davis spent weeks in the country.
His unclassified report, no longer available online, said the following:
“How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding.”
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