Mr. Trump, Stop Messing Around in Afghanistan

Date: 23 August 2017 - 22:05

News ID: ۴۳۳۴۸

By Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The quixotic president of the US, Donald Trump, has announced what he called his strategy for Afghanistan by increasing the number of American occupation troops – expected to be around 4,000 in addition to the 8,500 already there – and bragging: "In the end, we will win. We will always win.”
What an idiotic self-defeatist remark!
He and his team of warmongers, including war secretary, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, seem to be totally out of touch with realities on the ground in a country where the US troops have been unable to restore stability since they set foot in 2001.
Sixteen years is too long time for a war to drag on, and the "end” or the "win” to which Trump referred will definitely not happen during his presidency, unless the US admits failure and withdraws its forces.
Moreover, his words "we will always win” have drawn peals of laughter from saner minds in the US and all over the world, who very well know that since the debacle and disgrace in Vietnam, the US continues to emerge bruised and bloodied from all military encounters it is eager to plunge in, with loss of prestige every time.
Trump’s threats against North Korea has gotten him nowhere except to further puncture the over inflated image of the US against determined adversaries ready to match him in war of words, even if it requires flexing of nuclear muscles, without batting an eyelid.
According to analysts, Trump is not really promising to win the Afghan war, but egged on by military advisers, is planning prevent the Taleban from toppling the US-backed coalition government in Kabul, and thus ensure a base in a country where south, central and west Asia meet.
In other words, he wants to maintain the "no win, no lose” status quo so that the Taleban, most of them based and backed by troublesome American ally Pakistan, can carry on their bouts of terrorism, but without becoming powerful enough to overthrow the government in Kabul.
That is the reason Trump in his speech invited India into Afghanistan, merely to pressure Pakistan against allowing more leverage to China, and fully knowing that India does not have any borders with landlocked Afghanistan to facilitate physical interference, but can step up its accusations of terrorism and threats of retaliation in the disputed and divided region of Kashmir, which is also under close scrutiny of China from the north.
Thus, whatever Trump says or does, will not going to save the Afghan people from terrorism, which is increasing by the day, especially since the US itself has secretly allowed its defeated proxy in the Syria-Iraq theatre, the Daesh Takfiris, to infiltrate Afghanistan and indulge in macabre massacres of non-Salafis, especially the Shi’a Muslims, as happened recently in the Mirza Owlang region.
The crux of the problem is that, the source of terrorism in Afghanistan is the US itself, starting from the CIA’s creating of al-Qa’eda in the 1980s under agent Osama bin Laden for offsetting the Soviet occupation, to the creation of the Taleban in the refugee camps of Pakistan in the mid1990s, in coordination with the host country, and of course, with unlimited funds from Saudi Arabia, for taking over the country in order to tarnish the image of Islam by enacting medieval European laws in the name of Shari’a.
Terrorism will only end and terrorists will be wiped out from Afghanistan only when the US decides to call it a day and withdraw its occupation troops, so that the different ethnicities and religious groups that make up the country, whether Sunni or Shi’a Muslims, whether Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazara, Uzbek and others, sit together to resolve the problems for the sake of national unity and Islamic solidarity.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, as the most stabilizing force in the region, as is borne out by its defusing and defeating of the dangerous US-Zionist created crises and wars in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, is willing to help the brotherly people of Afghanistan, along with other neighbouring countries, to start nation-building.