by Jack
After 14 years of war, $709,581,065,738 dollars spent, 2316 US soldiers killed so far, 91,000 Afghans killed, ( including civilians, soldiers) and another 360,000 war related deaths, we are soon to be marching out of Afghanistan. When that happens their army that is certain to lose against the Taliban.
They can’t win because they don’t believe in what they are fighting for, they have little or no motivation. The best they can do is to slowly lose territory to the Taliban. This is merely prolonging the inevitable.
7 years of Barrack Obama has caused this, and its sealed their future fate unless a miracle comes along in the form of a new US President.
More lives in Iraq and Afghanistan have now been lost under the blundering Obama Administration than during the Bush years. In 2011 Foreign Policy online wrote, “ two-thirds of the total US troop deaths have occurred in the last two years and eight months, which accounts for roughly a third of the duration of the war to date.” It’s worse now. In 2013, “according to the CNSNews.com database of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan, 73 percent of all U.S. Afghan War casualties have occurred since Jan. 20, 2009 when Obama was inaugurated.”
Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents who know the pain of having their warrior son betrayed write:
“U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are now forced to fight a two-fronted war. Before each deployment, these soldiers understand fully that day after day they will do battle against relentless terrorists with shifting loyalties and unspeakable hatred. But what none of them could have foreseen was the killing field that would open from their rear: the Continental United States.
“Our government’s incessant tightening of already restrictive ROE (Rules of Engagement), compounded by the failed COIN (Counterinsurgency) strategy—also known as “winning hearts and minds”—has made an otherwise primitive enemy formidable.”
President Obama has proven by countless examples he has no concept how to effectively wield US military power and because of his arrogance, he refuses to listen to his military advisers. The end result has been a debacle and a tragedy. We’ve endured the senseless deaths of too many American soldiers and been witness to many more indigenous people killed in war in Afghanistan and Iraq, mostly because of foolish mistakes and mismanagement during Obama’s administration.
Chances are that within 2 years of Obama leaving office, the current Afghanistan regime will be deposed and the Taliban will return to power…albeit better armed with US weapons.
Obama may have been a financial disaster for America, especially black Americans, but he’s been absolutely deadly for many in the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Ukraine.
Obama’s administration has all but assured the military collapse of Iraq, a country which now teeters on the edge of complete destruction with the rise of ISIS.
The uprising in Syria might have been over in a week had Obama had the vision to force Assad out of power when he was ready to flee, but now 300,000 are dead and half the country lays in ruins. Its fate is uncertain as Muslim extremists including Al Qaeda and ISIS vie for Syrian territory.
Obama’s foreign policy has also emboldened the Russians to invade parts of the Ukraine and they now look at other small Eastern countries that could be invaded to rebuild part of the old USSR.
And the disasters continue – Obama just forced us into a bad nuclear agreement with the rogue nation of Iran, and as a result we will soon release $158 billion dollars back into their economy. Much of that money will go to fund global terrorism. If you don’t believe that, ask the former Yemeni government. Israel says they were betrayed by Obama and now millions of their citizens face nuclear obliteration by Iran within the next 5-10 years. Some legacy.