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The US can't win in Afghanistan.

"When Taliban gained power, it eliminated 95% of the rampant Afghanistan opium-heroin trade. After the US invaded, allied to the old Afghan Communists and northern Tajik tribes, opium-heroin production soared to record levels.  Today, US-occupied Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, morphine and heroin."

The CIA and narco-dollars in Afghanistan. It's all connected.

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Four million Muslims killed since the Gulf War.

The CIA is still dealing Afghan heroin.

Trump is ignoring South Korea's warning not to start a war with the North.

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DIA report claims North Korea can now put a nuke on top of a missile giving it a real nuclear deterrent. This is what US aggression has wrought.

Bomber kills two Americans in Afghanistan.

US to bomb ISIS in the Philippines. Escalate another war. CIA plots to overthrow Duterte.

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Robo-soldiers to outnumber human troops.

Trump sends 4,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan.

War on Drugs

While a distant second to post-invasion Afghanistan, North Korea is a major opium producer.

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The Afghan war reaches 15 years long.

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ISIS making gains in Afghanistan while Taliban fights them.

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Death toll in Nice rises to at least 86.

"That same evening, a frightful attack occurred in Nice. A demented 31-year old man of Tunisian origin, Mohammed Bouhel, who had just lost his job and then his family through divorce,  turned his truck into a mass murder weapon."

So maybe not terrorism.

"But after all the bombast and hot air,  it turned out that the crime in Nice was the product of a domestic crisis and one man’s suicidal impulses, rather like the three pilots who dove their aircraft into the ocean."

Suicidal? Murdering 86 people is mass murder almost beyond comprehension, not just suicide.

The US airbase in Germany that's the center of the war on terror.

If the war on terror was really about fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here, it failed horribly. But it's not.

28 pages of 9/11 report declassified talk about Saudis aiding hijackers, but offer no hard evidence.

Obama extends Afghan war again.

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NATO promises four more years of war in Afghanistan. I thought Obama ended that war.

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War radicalizes victims and those who identify with them.

"In 2001 the American empire moved in and, according to Brown University’s Watson Institute, almost 100,000 Afghani civilians have been killed, mostly by US bombs.
Being bombed is very emotional to those on the receiving end. As humans under attack, you’re naturally motivated to retaliate. When I ventured across Vietnam and Laos, survivors of US bombing raids told me of their fellow villagers who, back in the 1960’s, did not know anything about a country named America or the war beyond their hills. But these illiterate peasants were instantly radicalized and committed to patriot resistance upon their very first sighting of US warplanes dropping bombs on their homes and families.
Look what happened in the wake of the 9-11 attack upon the World Trade Center: thousands of American men and women were radicalized – moved by murder from the air – after viewing images of their homeland under attack. We Americans honor their reaction as “patriotism.”
Americans will always remember 9-11, but curiously, we don’t expect other people to react in a similar, visceral, patriotic way when their homelands are bombed."

Well said.

"Lying near dead people, wondering if she was about to die, Ms. Carter understood Omar’s real motive. She said, “The motive was very clear to us who are laying in our own blood and other people’s blood, who are injured, who were shot. Everybody who was in that bathroom who survived could hear him talking to 911, saying the reason why he’s doing this is because he wanted America to stop bombing his country.”"

We should all want that.

War with Russia becoming more likely.

Immigration

Afghan refugees who support Sharia flooding US. Same with Syrians.

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US forces still fighting in combat in Afghanistan.

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Link between drug trade, CIA, war, and deep state.

Republicans suddenly unhappy that US pays for NATO. It's a welfare program. It's about US rulers controlling European rulers. If Europeans had to pay, they would pull out and resist being controlled.

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After praising his lawless war on Libya, Obama blames Europeans, especially British PM Cameron, for its subsequent disintegration. That's because he's conservative.

Generals want to continue Afghan war.

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US protects al Qaeda in Syria.

How opium defeated the US in Afghanistan.

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Obama lied about ending the Afghan and Iraqi wars.

Navy launches 132 ft. drone boat to hunt submarines.

CIA claims ISIS can make and use chemical weapons.

Iraqi Shiite militias fighting US-CIA-backed Syrian rebels. Nice work, government.

Tank tries to be good at everything so will be good at nothing. This is a product of runaway military spending.

War kills republics.

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US blames Assad, Maliki and Saddam Hussein for the rise of ISIS.

Former Syrian ambassador admits the moderates he supported were really allies of ISIS and al Qaeda.

This is the real reason for war.

"The U.S. government was nice enough to gift our loyal friends the Afghans $17 billion of your tax money, and, in the true spirit of giving, asked nothing in return for itself.
What that means in actual dollars and nonsense is that the U.S. government wasted $17 billion in taxpayer money in Afghanistan on various projects that never made it off the ground or were doomed to fail because of incompetence or lack of maintenance, according to a new report."

It wasn't wasted. I went to profiteering.

Hillary's west African legacy.

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Another American killed and two wounded in Afghanistan.

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Al Qaeda returns to Afghanistan.

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Taliban gains ground.

Russians destroy ISIS oil convoys to Turkey.

"At a briefing by the Russian ministry of defence in Moscow, generals produced videos and photographs of Russian warplanes pulverising huge columns of oil tankers allegedly transporting oil for sale on the black market.
The Kremlin claimed to have destroyed 17 such truck columns in the past week alone - part of a Moscow-led onslaught against Isil's oil rackets that Russia says has wiped out nearly 2,000 oil tankers since Russia directly entered the war in Syria in September. "

At least the Russians are fighting them. We should get out of there and let them fight.

Even elephants take revenge when people kill their families. Blowback.