The US blitzkrieg to drive the Taliban
from power in 2001 just cost the lives of 12 American soldiers and the
so called ‘victory’ was achieved with relative ease. However, within 2-3
years time, gradually the Taliban regrouped and ever since the
occupying US has faced a formidable resistance from the Islamic
fighters. Despite 150,000 foreign troops occupying Afghanistan and an
equal number of hired mercenaries, the US and its allies have found the
going battle extremely difficult.
General David Petraeus, the commander of
US forces in Afghanistan has admitted that he was not fighting to win
but only to avoid defeat. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have
bankrupted the US, and the ongoing conflict is on the course to
financially ruin NATO members fighting alongside the United States. The
war costs the US approximately $100 billion a year which is about seven
times Afghanistan’s annual gross domestic product of $14 billion and
more than the cost of President Obama’s health-care plan.
The US intelligence claims that there
are only 400 al-Qaeda militants hiding in the Afghan-Pak border region,
if so the US does not need to commit 100,000 troops to fight a ragtag
band of al-Qaeda fighters. Instead more money, equipments and troops
continue to be poured in just to defeat a bunch of al-Qaeda warriors.
The US has completely failed to
apprehend Usama bin Laden or to dismantle al-Qaeda. The most wanted man
in the world, al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden still enjoys a safe haven
somewhere in the world and continues to command the various al-Qaeda
franchisees in Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and North Africa.
Protecting the CIA-Pentagon run drugs
trade in Afghanistan to finance the US led wars elsewhere is a top
priority, as the Afghan drugs brings $50 billion a year. People around
the world are brainwashed in believing that opium and heroin are
financing world terrorism and the supply of weapons to Taliban is
through drugs trade. However, billions of dollars worth heroin is
shipped out of Afghanistan on rendition flights and American Global Hawk
UAV aircrafts are used for distribution around the world.
The United States has accumulated an
external debt of some $14 trillion and an internal debt of another $38
trillion, indicating that it is the biggest debtor nation in the world.
The US is heading towards a nightmare scenario and is no longer able to
pay for the ongoing wars or for the rising number of unemployed in the
country. The number of poor people in the US has risen to 44 million
from 38 million two years ago. The US infrastructure is crumbling and
there is no money to repair it. The US Federal Reserve Bank is a private
institution owned and controlled by the Jews – continues to print
dollars but this racketeering cannot go on forever. The economy has not
rebounded; and the number of unemployed has not declined. The optimistic
statements issued in the wake of the financial meltdown in October 2008
to bail out failing US banks and corporations have been exposed as
fraudulent. The economic uncertainty has led to public anger which gave
rise to the Tea Party movement with its lunatic jingoism. The movement
is being craftily exploited by rightwing politicians for their narrow
selfish ends.
The US has entangled itself in a
nightmare and the defeat in Afghanistan is inevitable. The US and NATO
death tolls in the war on terror continues to rise and more obstacles
lie ahead. The US and coalition forces have no other option but to
withdraw from Afghanistan and when this happens, Afghanis would once
again prove that their country, Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires.
_________________________________________________Written by: Ibrahim Nazim
18 October 2010, Monday
10 Zulqaida 1431
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