After years of repeatedly condemning America’s involvement in Afghanistan, President Trump announced his intention this week to ramp up military operations there.
Though Barack Obama adopted the exact same policy shortly after taking office in 2009, imposing a 30,000 troop surge to no avail, Trump is following the same failed path.
Despite the president’s repeated vows to ‘win,’ there is little victory for soldiers who have suffered multiple tours of duty, Afghani civilians who have endured occupation and abuse from the U. S. military and other terrorist factions (whose influence is a result of failed American foreign policy), and the American people, who have poured billions of dollars into the United States’ longest war only to find terrorist groups have flourished.
So who is actually winning? It should come as no surprise that defense stocks surged on Tuesday amid the news of Trump’s own surge.
CNBC reported:
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on AUGUST 24, 2017.
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