Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan? by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com »
Posted By populist 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Political Opinion
After eight years of two major counterinsurgency wars (and various minor encounters in what used to be called the Global War on Terror), with many soldiers experiencing multiple tours of duty, with approximately 120,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq and almost 70,000 in Afghanistan, with the Afghan War clearly in an escalatory phase, commanders in the field calling for 40,000-80,000 more American troops, and base construction on the rise, the military’s internal problems are clearly escalating as well.
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Duty, Honor, Country. There is no honor in bringing dishonor to the men and women who serve our country in the military services by forcing them to continue fighting in useless, unsustainable, and wars without any possibility or definition of “victory” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It is a cruel hoax that has been and is being played on the American people and members of the armed forces that our involvement in these “Wars” are being waged to protect the national security of the USA. They are being waged by a few people who will reap huge profits from the control of the gas and oil reserves in these regions. What a waste it is that American blood and treasure is being wasted to secure the rights to commodities that will eventually find themselves onto the world market and sold to the highest bidder regardless of when our ultimate retreat from these regions occurs.
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