On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:58:23 -0500, Mitchell Holman
<noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:pp6la20nim@drn.newsguy.com:
>
>> more at
>> http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24017/the-u-s-state-department-has
>> -its-own-sprawling-air-force-heres-whats-in-its-inventory
>>
>> As the United States continues to slog through nearly two decades of
>> fighting in Afghanistan, the fact that American diplomats and other
>> civilian U.S. government personnel still have to take short, but
>> and the U.S. Embassy there has made headlines.
>
>
> Just as in the last days of the Soviet
>occupation, the "insugents" control virtually
>the whole country while the foreign infidels
>have a few large cities and a couple of roads
>between them.
>
>
It's a no win situation. If we don't want Afghanistan to be an
uncontested haven for terrorists, then we will have to maintain some
kind of military presence there for the foreseeable future.
Of course, it would help to address the root causes of terrorism but,
that would be politically unpopular with the alt-right and wouldn't
drive up military spending and sales of weapons to 3rd world,
authoritarian states such as Saudi Arabia.
--
- Gen, John F. Kelly (4 star, USMC, Ret.)
White House Chief of Staff speaking about President Trump
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