U.S. 'not winning' in Afghanistan, Mattis tells Congress

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We're obviously in Afghanistan to keep eyes on Iran...

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How is trying to "win" in Afghanistan in 2017 EVEN a thought?

what does the US want to do exactly?
Americanise it?

Prevent China from have access to the rare earth minerals through OBOR, keep an eye on the lucrative poppy seed muffin industry, have a flank around Iran so another country can be potentially invaded, and basically any excuse to keep the MIC contractors and stockholders :eat:.
 

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Prevent China from have access to the rare earth minerals through OBOR, keep an eye on the lucrative poppy seed muffin industry, have a flank around Iran so another country can be potentially invaded, and basically any excuse to keep the MIC contractors and stockholders :eat:.
You didn't say this was wrong, tho :sas2:
 

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You didn't say this was wrong, tho :sas2:

I answered posters inquiries about "what is winning or purpose of being there"...... :gucci:

If we spending billions in the country where Empires go to Die, quote unquote, then good or bad is based on what one considers good or bad.

Billions to line pockets of warmongers or billions to fix infrastructure in our own country.....good or bad?

Ask the parents of all the white kids and adults overdosing on cheap/plentiful poppy seed muffins.....good or bad?

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I always said Afghanistan was the "more just" war...but the whole nation building thing is stupid.

Go in, fukk up Al-Qaeda, bounce.
The problem is when you fukk them up they come back because the Taliban has close ties with them. It also doesn't help that we back a very unpopular corrupt and incompetent Afghan government which leads to people supporting the Taliban. And it also doesn't help we turn a blind eye on Pakistan supporting the Taliban.

You didn't say this was wrong, tho :sas2:
It's wrong because Afghanistan is a resource drain. And if us being in Afghanistan is to keep check on Iran it has failed. Iran has recruited Afghani and Pakistani shiites to fight in Syria. And this is all the while we were there. Also Iran almost went to war with Afghanistan when the Taliban was in power back 2001. We are simply doing them a favor fighting their hated enemy the Taliban.
And Afghanistan is where empires go die anyway. We have been there forever. I was in the 5th grade when the war started and now I'm in grad school. This war has been going damn near my whole life. The war has been a failure and a quagmire and it's time to leave.
 
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