enhanced_deficit
04-22-2017, 11:15 AM
Is Trump's Afghan war strategy a continuation of Obama's failed war escalation/drone bombings policy of last 8 years?
Obama tried to force a militant solution instead of focussing on a political solution and failed totally in ending the longest war in US history.
At least 140 dead after Taliban attack on key Afghan army base, officials say (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/at-least-140-dead-after-taliban-attack-on-a-key-afghan-army-base-officials-say/)
By The Washington Post
April 22, 2017 at 2:20 pm
http://content.newsinc.com/jpg/320/32302334/54817501.jpg?t=1492841340
KABUL, Afghanistan — The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh province. There, thousands of Afghan National Army troops live and train, regional deployments and attacks are planned, and U.S.-supplied helicopters and fighter planes are launched to support Afghan troops battling the Taliban.
On Friday, in a stunning blow to the Western-backed war effort, the base on a sun-baked plain near the city of Mazar-e Sharif became the target of the deadliest single attack by Taliban insurgents since their regime in Kabul was overthrown in 2001.
Marines headed to southern Afghanistan, where Taliban are reversing previous victories
By: Jeff Schogol, April 18, 2017
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marines-headed-to-southern-afghanistan
Bigger bombs, more airstrikes are going to make the war in Afghanistan worse
By Douglas Wissing - 04/18/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/329286-bigger-bombs-more-air-strikes-are-going-to-make-the-war-in
Pentagon Chief: US Won't Reveal 'Mother of All Bombs' Toll (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-04-20/us-defense-chief-pentagon-wont-reveal-damage-from-big-bomb)
The ear-splitting explosion from America's "mother of all bombs" has been followed by calculated silence about the damage it inflicted.
Related
Afghanistan: Making It Worse (http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/04/18/afghanistan-making-it-worse/)
The New York Review of Books-Apr 18, 2017
Former Afghan President Karzai Calls Islamic State 'Tool' of US (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509977-Former-Afghan-President-Karzai-Calls-Islamic-State-Tool-of-US&)
Karzai says US is using Afghanistan as weapons testing ground (http://www.thenational.ae/world/central-asia/karzai-says-us-is-using-afghanistan-as-weapons-testing-ground)
April 17, 2017
KABUL // Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said on Monday that the United States is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb "an immense atrocity against the Afghan people".
Use of ‘mother of all bombs’ traumatizes Bay Area Afghans
April 20, 2017
http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/60/53/22/12760215/3/920x1240.jpg Associated Press
Women from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan hold posters Sunday during a demonstration against the U.S. government for its bombing in the Nangarhar province on April 13.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/o...y-11087901.php (http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Use-of-mother-of-all-bombs-traumatizes-Bay-11087901.php)
Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study
CNN Sep 25, 2012
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o28/fairleft/1.jpg
https://i1.wp.com/www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Drone-Protests.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hJNLVr1V2kc/T1DFczR2pTI/AAAAAAAAIvA/MRKwVir3W7Q/s1600/Afghanistan+black-dog-obama.jpg
Trump: "No child of God should ever suffer such horror" (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509736-Trump-quot-No-child-of-God-should-ever-suffer-such-horror-quot&)
On Wednesday, standing with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump echoed that sentiment.
"Young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead, dead children," Trump said. "There can't be a worse sight, and it shouldn't be allowed."
TSA Agent "Screening" Young Boy (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509105-TSA-Agent-quot-Screening-quot-Young-Boy&)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfyMl8vcVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfyMl8vcVw
Obama tried to force a militant solution instead of focussing on a political solution and failed totally in ending the longest war in US history.
At least 140 dead after Taliban attack on key Afghan army base, officials say (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/at-least-140-dead-after-taliban-attack-on-a-key-afghan-army-base-officials-say/)
By The Washington Post
April 22, 2017 at 2:20 pm
http://content.newsinc.com/jpg/320/32302334/54817501.jpg?t=1492841340
KABUL, Afghanistan — The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh province. There, thousands of Afghan National Army troops live and train, regional deployments and attacks are planned, and U.S.-supplied helicopters and fighter planes are launched to support Afghan troops battling the Taliban.
On Friday, in a stunning blow to the Western-backed war effort, the base on a sun-baked plain near the city of Mazar-e Sharif became the target of the deadliest single attack by Taliban insurgents since their regime in Kabul was overthrown in 2001.
Marines headed to southern Afghanistan, where Taliban are reversing previous victories
By: Jeff Schogol, April 18, 2017
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marines-headed-to-southern-afghanistan
Bigger bombs, more airstrikes are going to make the war in Afghanistan worse
By Douglas Wissing - 04/18/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/329286-bigger-bombs-more-air-strikes-are-going-to-make-the-war-in
Pentagon Chief: US Won't Reveal 'Mother of All Bombs' Toll (https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-04-20/us-defense-chief-pentagon-wont-reveal-damage-from-big-bomb)
The ear-splitting explosion from America's "mother of all bombs" has been followed by calculated silence about the damage it inflicted.
Related
Afghanistan: Making It Worse (http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/04/18/afghanistan-making-it-worse/)
The New York Review of Books-Apr 18, 2017
Former Afghan President Karzai Calls Islamic State 'Tool' of US (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509977-Former-Afghan-President-Karzai-Calls-Islamic-State-Tool-of-US&)
Karzai says US is using Afghanistan as weapons testing ground (http://www.thenational.ae/world/central-asia/karzai-says-us-is-using-afghanistan-as-weapons-testing-ground)
April 17, 2017
KABUL // Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said on Monday that the United States is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb "an immense atrocity against the Afghan people".
Use of ‘mother of all bombs’ traumatizes Bay Area Afghans
April 20, 2017
http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/60/53/22/12760215/3/920x1240.jpg Associated Press
Women from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan hold posters Sunday during a demonstration against the U.S. government for its bombing in the Nangarhar province on April 13.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/o...y-11087901.php (http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Use-of-mother-of-all-bombs-traumatizes-Bay-11087901.php)
Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study
CNN Sep 25, 2012
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o28/fairleft/1.jpg
https://i1.wp.com/www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Drone-Protests.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hJNLVr1V2kc/T1DFczR2pTI/AAAAAAAAIvA/MRKwVir3W7Q/s1600/Afghanistan+black-dog-obama.jpg
Trump: "No child of God should ever suffer such horror" (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509736-Trump-quot-No-child-of-God-should-ever-suffer-such-horror-quot&)
On Wednesday, standing with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump echoed that sentiment.
"Young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead, dead children," Trump said. "There can't be a worse sight, and it shouldn't be allowed."
TSA Agent "Screening" Young Boy (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?509105-TSA-Agent-quot-Screening-quot-Young-Boy&)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfyMl8vcVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfyMl8vcVw