NOT true—at least not in my perspective.
First, Ten thousand or more troops remain..and if
there’s a “surge” by the Taliban, or if ISIS moves into that country,
stand by for many calls for more “boots on the ground” again. ..as we
will hear if ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq seem
to be winning.
We should never have been in Afghanistan. The Bush
administration, frankly, deceived the American people..as it did with
the WMD approach in Iraq. Only here it was that “the Taliban is in
league with Al-Qaida” and is, therefore, partially
responsible for the events of 9/11. Not true. In religious doctrine,
both extremist groups did not agree. The Taliban had nothing to do with
9/11. But in the haste…and rush to war in Iraq, the US went along. We
have yet to extricate ourselves from Afghanistan..and
as the poppy fields bloom again there..we may yet have a War on Heroin
if nothing else.
But, secondly, what about the Korean “War”? The US
started fighting there in 1950…65 years ago, SIX times the length of
the Afghan war, and there is still NO peace treaty between us. We
maintain military forces there, and occasionally
shooting breaks out, and an American GI is killed. That’s war to
me..even though Congress NEVER declared war, and as a fact, has not since
the end of World War Two! While Congressmen swear an oath to uphold the
Constitution, maybe they haven’t read the section
on the power to declare war recently.
Wars are tricky things..but if we are ever to
understand them, and deal with them properly, the facts must be out
there. Declaring any end to our “longest war” is no way to help America
do that.
I'm just sayin'...
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