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If you think massive herion plantations with poppies cultivated to be exported around the world, and especially the USA is a success then yes the Afghan 'War' was a 19 year success.
If you think bastardising your armed forces, especially the army and 'intelligence services' and TEACHING the same with participating nations around the herion exporting industry is a success Sir, Mr. Pompeo (praying to GOD and Jesus at a good Catholic Church) then yes the Afghan war was a 19 year success.
If you think conducting massive fraud into the 100's of billions using the good taxpayers money, and yet more additional Afghan 'War' appropriation bills rubber stamped by Congress.....in one year alone $74 billion spent under Obummer to sustain the disporportionate and improbable sum of a few thosuand American servicemen in a phony war for example, then yes the Afghan war of 19 years was a success.
If you think paying Afghan Ghost soldiers from the American taxpayer is a success, then yes.
If you think paying Taliban members not to attack American servicemen, and arming them through third parties so that the fake charade of 'war' could continue for a few years more, then yes the 19 year Afghan war is a success.
All said and done, the so called Taliban set up by the CIA in 1994 to consolidate Afghanistan for the USA under the Clintons direction (Sandy Berger et al...CIA) , can now be bought and MANAGED by the current administration as obedient poodles without relying on any Quija Board channeling.
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Pompeo Argues US War in Afghanistan Was ‘Successful’
While the Trump Administration has yet to officially sign the peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the clearest sign yet that they’ll do so came in a new interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
While US officials have often been unrealistically rosy-eyed about the state of the war, Pompeo took the talking points to a new level, and now is arguing effectively that the US has won the war in Afghanistan, and “delivered” on all of its goals.
The US has repeatedly redefined what the war’s goal actually was, both because stabilizing Afghanistan never really happened, and because officials wanted a metric that wouldn’t show a loss. Pompeo, however, argued that al-Qaeda is defeated and a “shadow of its former self in Afghanistan.”
Pompeo said this was a “real achievement,” and that the 19 years of war had “greatly reduced the risk that an attack on the United States of America would emanate from Afghan soil.” The deal with the Taliban has as one of its centerpieces a Taliban promise to keep al-Qaeda and ISIS out of Afghanistan.
Selling this not just as the best the US is going to get but a virtual victory is likely to be the administration’s talking point if they intend to advance toward finalizing the peace deal. Pompeo’s comments seem to be a first step toward exactly that.
While US officials have often been unrealistically rosy-eyed about the state of the war, Pompeo took the talking points to a new level, and now is arguing effectively that the US has won the war in Afghanistan, and “delivered” on all of its goals.
The US has repeatedly redefined what the war’s goal actually was, both because stabilizing Afghanistan never really happened, and because officials wanted a metric that wouldn’t show a loss. Pompeo, however, argued that al-Qaeda is defeated and a “shadow of its former self in Afghanistan.”
Pompeo said this was a “real achievement,” and that the 19 years of war had “greatly reduced the risk that an attack on the United States of America would emanate from Afghan soil.” The deal with the Taliban has as one of its centerpieces a Taliban promise to keep al-Qaeda and ISIS out of Afghanistan.
Selling this not just as the best the US is going to get but a virtual victory is likely to be the administration’s talking point if they intend to advance toward finalizing the peace deal. Pompeo’s comments seem to be a first step toward exactly that.
