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No need for 100,000 plus NATO/ISAF troops to maintain the Opium/heroin plantation harvest,...... each of whom cost $1 million a year. Plus also ALL the secret unaudited expenditure...$50 billion...$60 billion????Who knows? Congress doesn't. EACH YEAR.
No need for $150 billion spent fighting a phantom enemy EACH YEAR, armed with nothing more than ak-47, and guided by the ISI, which itself is pay-rolled by the CIA.
Did I just say fake war as a cover for the Opium Plantation Harvest for Wall Street/London?
Get some of the 2.5 million Americans in the American gulags to work in the opium plantations IN THE JEWSA, especially the 38% 'Nigger' PRISON POPULATION......the hot dry sun will be just dandy for them. Not advisable for the freckled Americans.
Think of ALL the huge savings, costs on logistics, where at present the stuff has to be shipped from Afghanistan/Ariana by NATO MILITARY planes to Deonme Turkey (Narco-Hub..Fethullah Gulen/MIT/Turkish police).......then to failed narco-state Kosvo/Bosnia....then to USA AFBs, and also private airfields in the USA (Mena Arkansas as one example)
This is a simple logical solution, and Wall Street profits from laundering this stuff will not be affected but profit margins will increase. You are cutting out a lot of the sleazy, unreliable middlemen.
A sure bet.
Now all we need is the CIA to install shady, sleazy scumbags, as governors/congressmen/senators in those states mentioned ABOVE, just as they have done in countless other countries around the world, since 1953.
The types the CIA feel at home with.
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Civilian Casualties Increase 23% in Afghanistan, the Purposeless and Never-Ending War
By John Glaser at antiwar.comA UN report documents 1,319 civilian deaths and 2,533 injuries in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2013, a 23 percent increase over the same period in 2012. The study finds “a 14 percent increase in deaths, 28 percent increase in injuries and 23 percent increase in total civilian casualties.”
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Most of the civilian casualties, according to the report, came from what are called “Anti-Government Elements” (74 percent). But civilian casualties by U.S.-NATO forces can be hard to substantiate when these authorities flatly deny accusations.
(Fog of war!)
Take, for example, an issue Jason Ditz covers in today’s news section:
Months after loudly dismissing the allegations of Wardak civilians that U.S. Special Forces have been kidnapping, torturing and killing them, the U.S. Army has announced that it has begun a new investigation into the claim[s] under orders from Gen. Dunford, the commander for troops in occupied Afghanistan.
Afghan officials loudly demanded the U.S. withdraw from Wardak Province over the allegations in February, but quickly dropped the demand when NATO insisted the allegations were false.
The issue didn’t die down, however, as civilian bodies kept being found outside the U.S. base and a tape eventually emerged showing the torture of a local civilian, whose body was later found in a ditch near the base.In any case, the question of how to put an end to the suffering of Afghan civilians is more and more pertinent as casualties increase. Hawks in Washington insist U.S. forces stay in there, continue the nation-building project, and beat back the insurgency. That’ll do it, right!?
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No. A decade of doing exactly that with worsening results should indicate as much. The Kabul government we’re propping up is weak. The Afghan army is feeble and untenable. And the insurgency is alive and well after years of counter-insurgency.
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Pentagon sources say the “zero option” of withdrawing all U.S. troops in 2014 that has floated into the press in recent weeks is off the table. That means the military occupation of Afghanistan and the propping up of this corrupt and decrepit government will continue, as planned, until about 2024.
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This means the armed insurgency will also continue for another decade, which therefore means Afghan civilians will continue to suffer – seemingly indefinitely. They largely have America to thank for it.
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At this point, the obstinate continuation of the war parallels the perpetuation of the Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers proved what had been long suspected, that the horrible, murderous war was kept going primarily for the sake of the political reputation of the leadership in Washington. They didn’t want to “lose” a war. So they lied to Americans about how important “victory” was and how achievable it was.
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There is no victory in Afghanistan. The “zero option” is the only option: get out fast.
