Press TV / November 25, 2017
Interview
An American scholar and political analyst says an open-ended occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and its proxies is the real intent of American policy.
Dennis Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a statement by General John Nicholson, the top US Army commander in Afghanistan.
Nicholson told NBC News on Friday that the war in Afghanistan “is still in a stalemate.”
“We are only 90 days into this new policy, but with the US forces that will be arriving, with the new authority that we have been given, put the pressure on external enablers, with the fact that we are condition based and not time based, we’ve set all the conditions to win,” he said.
Professor Etler said, “A popular American fantasy movie from the 1990s, ‘Groundhog Day,’ finds the protagonist caught in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over again. After indulging in hedonism and committing suicide numerous times, he begins to re-examine his life and priorities.”
“The US war in Afghanistan is a real-life example of what might be called the ‘Groundhog Day’ syndrome. For 16 years the US has declared that victory against the Taliban was imminent, that the US just needed more time and more troops to succeed,” he added.
“After a certain amount of time it is declared that the situation has stabilized and the Afghan government and defense forces are capable of handling it on their own. Plans are announced for a drawdown of US forces. Then as the withdrawal begins the Taliban reasserts itself and begins gaining the upper hand, only to elicit a US military ‘surge’ to stem the tide,” he stated.
“This happened in the Bush administration in 2005 and in the Obama administration as well. Trump while campaigning said that the Afghan War was a total disaster, intimating that the US take its troops home to ‘rebuild America.’ Soon after assuming office he reversed course and decided that US forces needed to be reinforced. He further stated that the US presence in Afghanistan had to be open-ended with no deadlines set in place,” the analyst continued.
“All the rhetoric by US generals and presidents about how well the fight is going, how their new strategy will, ‘set all the conditions needed to win,’ and all their talk about ‘the progress’ that’s been made, have been repeated ad nauseam for 16 years, with no real change in the prospects for success. All the boastful predictions and bombastic rhetoric are exercises in futility,” said Etler, who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.
Why the US has failed in Afghanistan
“The reason why the US has failed and will continue to do so in its mission to pacify Afghanistan is that the Taliban are not terrorists, but resistance fighters. Ever since their predecessors fought against the Soviet occupation of their country generations of patriotic Afghans have joined the fight to oust the foreign presence in their midst,” the commentator opined.
“The US, like all former imperialists, has found Afghanistan indigestible. According to General John Nicholson, the top US Army commander in Afghanistan, the war ‘is still in a stalemate,’ and winning means ‘delivering a negotiated settlement that reduces the level of violence and protects the homeland.’ In lieu of that unlikely outcome Trump vows to stay in Afghanistan without any time limit, in other words a perpetual occupation,” he argued.
“In reality, cutting through all the obfuscation and misdirection, an open-ended occupation of Afghanistan by the US and its proxies is the real intent of US policy. The US has illegally inserted its forces into Syria and plans to maintain its hold on Afghanistan for obvious geopolitical reasons, primarily to keep pressure on Iran and its allies, in order to maintain US hegemony in the Middle East in collusion with Israel and Saudi Arabia,” Professor Etler concluded.
In August, President Donald Trump announced his controversial war strategy for Afghanistan. In a blatant U-turn from his campaign pledges to end the 16-year occupation of Afghanistan, Trump said that his views have changed since entering the White House and that he would continue the military intervention “as long as we see determination and progress” in Afghanistan.
The United States — under Republican George W. Bush’s presidency — and its allies invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban regime from power, but after more than one and a half decades, the foreign troops are still deployed to the country.
After becoming the president in 2008, President Barack Obama, a Democrat, vowed to end the Afghan war — one of the longest conflicts in US history – but he failed to keep his promise.
Trump, who has spoken against the Afghan war, has dubbed the 2001 invasion and following occupation of Afghanistan as “Obama’s war”.
But Trump has also announced to deploy thousands of more troops to the war-torn country, signaling a policy shift.
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Trump’s “back up generals” will be obliged to brew, desperately-needed, U.S. relations with Russia to the best of its possible maturity- all due to decisive setbacks on war fronts of the “anarchy-imposed” Afghanistan.
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Obviously; the outreach, which is propped up by Trump’s “Afghan-War seasoned”
generals, is obediently re-scripted and forced to replay under the reality of the current grim situation on the ground.
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Trump
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NOW,; THE QUESTION IS HOVERING, OVER WHETHER HOW TO GET UNTANGLED FROM THE GRIPS OF DEEP QUAGMIRES OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST, ((campaign promises))- he definitely needs help. But, it is not clear whether how much political leverage is urgently needed to drag in the ex-Soviet KGB-trained president Putin onboard into Afghan wreckage as an acting savior.
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IT IS NOT A NEW INITIATIVE AT ALL, THE US MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE HAD ALREADY BEEN CONTINUOUSLY HARNESSING AND EXPLOITING THE COMBAT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE EX-SOVIET MERCENARIES AND PILOTS WHO WERE KEPT MOBILIZED WITH “RUSIAN-MADE DELIVERY HELICOPTERS” AND OTHER ESSENTIAL MILITARY-SUPPLIES- THE WHOLE PACKAGE WERE, ALL ALONG, DEPLOYED ON COMBAT MISSIONS ACROSS THE KILLING FIELDS OF AFGHANISTAN,
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THE GRAND INVASION
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Launching of
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INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMINALS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS ARE STILL BUSY PROMOTING RITUALISTIC EPISODES OF LETHAL INTRUSIONS INTO VARIOUS PARTS OF EASTERN AFGHANISTAN (Nangarhahr Province)- THE KIND OF SAVAGERIES THAT HAVE HAD BEEN ALREADY TESTED OUT NUMEROUS TIMES, WITH IMPUNITY, ON REMOTE CORNERS OF IRAQ AND SYRIA IN CONJUNCTION TO THE IRON-FISTED BUT
“MYSTERIOUSLY-CONTROLLED” RULES OF THE SO CALLED “ISIS BANDS”.
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IN FACT, ANOTHER BLATANT PROXY SCENARIO IS NOW UNFOLDING UNDER THE SAME NAME BRAND IN CERTAIN VULNERABLE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF AFGHANISTAN AS WELL, WHICH ARE FULLY SUPPORTED, SUPPLIED AND SUPPLEMENTED WITH TACIT UNDERSTANDING AND APPROVAL OF THE US GENERALS AND THEIR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS.
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THE CORE OF THE INITIATIVE ON AFGHAN POSTURING IS PRIMARILY HINGED ON A STATE OF SUSTAINABLE IMPOSED ANARCHY which is mostly energized and rewarded strategically according to good performances of highly-paid frontline foreign mercenaries and vulnerable and poorly-paid local recruits- all meant to minimize casualties to NATO’S elite mobile and ground forces.
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HISTORICAL
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Russian interference, on the other hand, is deemed to work out the magical tricks as a guiding catalyst and a model that was once boosted English losing army to a safe exit out of Afghanistan during late 19 century notorious “Great Game” time period (early 1880’s)- that is exactly the “GREAT HOPES” of the highly-decorated rogue NATO GENERALS; in an attempt to give Trump’s “hopeful military supremacy program”- the necessary momentum that he would definitely need to help save face on global arena.
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Yes; “a hopefully newly-found promising, ((but hidden)), agenda to make America great once again”; as it was widely trumpeted- but now ironically, the slogan is getting uncomfortable reshuffled and earnestly worked out to be aligned, ((on its full swing)), with the wishful blessings of an ex-KGB comrade onboard”.
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THE COMMON GROUND
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MATTIS, the US secretary of defense, optimistically told his security committee that he didn’t see any indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a more positive relationship with the United States- “Mr. Putin has chosen to be a strategic competitor,” he said, although he added that ties could improve “. as we look for common ground.”.
As you clearly notice, (from the above statement); all the sensitive hidden information, under the magical motto of a
“common ground”, is filled in secrecy- in spite of the fact that it occasionally filters out in bits and pieces; albeit, under grossly-distorted mass media’s goofy interpretations and raucous irrelevant outbursts of the camp followers.
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RE-ENACTMENT
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Putin built up his nationalistic credentials and rogue charisma by devouring Chechnya but he does not have the stomach for Afghanistan- it is a proven fact. So, logically the
Afghan quagmires are not going to be stretched and steered into a new broad-based regional “Great Game”, as a reminiscent of rather successfully-implemented Afghan peace agreement that lasted for almost 30 years under the auspices, ((common grounds)), of the
Cassock Russian army and the English imperial invaders during the final interludes of Second Anglo-Afghan WAR ((early 1880’S)).
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Regardless, it can be easily surmised that the main current concern is and will be mainly focused on how to make a
graceful exit out of Afghanistan- and then to coincide it with further “logical” but wishful assumption that the withdrawal would possibly smooth out much more favorable if, somehow, the whole mess could get teamed up, in a badly-needed strategic cooperation and solid coordination, with the
undeclared overlord of
ex-Soviet Republics.
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Now, that really sounds like another variable, stuck and implicated in a
“catch 22” type formula which is running obviously concurrent and parallel in series with multiple other regionally ((“endemic or created”)), convoluted issues and developing scenarios to be seriously dealt with, sooner or later- AND ALL BEYOND THE MENTAL CAPACITY OF THE INCOMPETENT INVADERS.
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ONCE AGAIN WITNESSED
IN AND AROUND
THE COMPLEXLY-WOVEN HIGH MOUNTAIN PEAKS AND DEEPLY-CONNECTED VALLEYS
OF:
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RUGGED
AFGHANISTAN