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US wants Afghanistan’s wealth, strategic position: Analyst
 [PRESSTV] The United States has no plans to end the war in Afghanistan despite knowing full well that there is no military solution to the ongoing conflict in the country, says an American political commentator, arguing that America’s interests in the Asian country far outweigh the costs of war.Stephen Lendman, a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... -based author and radio host, made the remarks while discussing remarks by General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who admitted that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... "are not losing" in Afghanistan. Speaking during a discussion at a security forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday, the top US military officer said much more needed to be done to bring peace to the war-torn country 17 years into the longest war in American history. Dunford admitted "what has been well known for so many years; that the war in Afghanistan is something America can never win, no matter how long they fight it," Lendman told Press TV on Tuesday. Lendman said the war was part of a regional plot by the CIA and the Mossad to steal Afghanistan’s vast mineral resources While the US Department of Defense’s estimates have put Afghanistan’s untapped wealth of gold, copper, uranium and other rare-earth minerals at well around $1 trillion, Afghan officials’ latest geological studies hint at figures three times larger. The number can probably explain Washington’s willingness to continue the war in Afghanistan, which has dragged on for 16 years and has cost the US economy more than $714 billion dollars, according to the Pentagon's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) July report. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-21 |
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