manu1959
Left Coast Isolationist
he can acomplish his central asia mandate and not be in afganistan......high body count...photo op....a different election result.....he is out of there....
You make an excellent point. If we can maintain control the Afghan government, we can maintain strategic dominance without risking further US lives.
The question then becomes:
"How do we maintain control if we don't have boots on the ground, when the "insurgents" and the "Taliban" are only insurgents and Taliban because they want to remove the puppet government that was placed by the foreign invaders?"
Here's how I would do it if I was a morally unscrupulous and ethically challenged globalist corporation who controls the US government:
I'd betray the leadership that I had placed in Kabul, perhaps by using my mainstream media to associate him directly or indirectly with US intelligence. I'd have my hand-selected replacement waiting in the wings, so that when my existing puppet is removed or assassinated, the Afghan people would believe that THEIR representative is now in charge and ready to represent THEM, rather than representing foreign corporate interests.
I's orchestrate my own coup d'etat, and I'd place my own representative in office. And I'd instruct the US media to place all the blame on the US President (who is on board with the plan), so the US people believe that Obama pulled us out of Afghanistan, and the Afghans believe that they are in control of their own government. Yet I'm the one pulling all of the strings and pushing all of the buttons.
Just like we did when Jimmy Carter helped place Chavez in Venezuela. The corporate globalists get a South American economic merge that never would have happened under the FTAA because the South American nations didn;t trust our corporate controlled leadership. Jimmy Carter helped place a guy in Venezuela who we demonized as an enemy, who then did what the FTAA could not accomplish.
I'd play the same game in Afghanistan. The only people who would have any clue are the ones orchestrating it, and the folks who spend lots of time looking for the connections behind the scenes, and understanding what plays and players were conveniently omitted from the media and the history books.
can you say washington bullets again............