Are we at war again in Afghanistan?

Poppie Bush's CIA is protecting the freedom of poppie farmers.
You didn't know the CIA is the world's biggest drug dealer?
Clinton worked for him both at Oxford and in Arkansas.

I knew we were still in Afghanistan, and we will be there probably 20 more years.

Landon Caeli said:

"As the U.S. sends thousands more troops to Afghanistan and ratchets up airstrikes, a new report from a U.S. military auditor suggests that the war is still at a stalemate, with signs of continued decline in Afghan government control.

And the amount of basic information available to the public about the war is getting smaller, making it more difficult for the U.S. taxpayer to understand how U.S.-supported forces are faring in their fight against the Taliban."

Watchdog Report Shows Gaps In Information About Afghanistan War

...I didnt even know we were still at war in Afghanistan. Did you..?

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We were never not at war in Afghan. There have always been American troops there supporting the Afghan government. This is just another expansion of the war. Trump, and other war mongers, need to have a constant state of war.

Landon Caeli said:

...I didnt even know we were still at war in Afghanistan. Did you..?

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Yes, I did.

Rick Otto said:

Poppie Bush's CIA is protecting the freedom of poppie farmers.
You didn't know the CIA is the world's biggest drug dealer?
Clinton worked for him both at Oxford and in Arkansas.

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Reagan was a drug dealer long before Bush41. Have you ever heard of Mena Arkansas, and Barry Seals?

Landon Caeli said:

"As the U.S. sends thousands more troops to Afghanistan and ratchets up airstrikes, a new report from a U.S. military auditor suggests that the war is still at a stalemate, with signs of continued decline in Afghan government control.

And the amount of basic information available to the public about the war is getting smaller, making it more difficult for the U.S. taxpayer to understand how U.S.-supported forces are faring in their fight against the Taliban."

Watchdog Report Shows Gaps In Information About Afghanistan War

...I didnt even know we were still at war in Afghanistan. Did you..?

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Yes. The administration, like that of President Obama, feels that it is important not to let Afghanistan become an ISIS base of operations and/or a satellite of Pakistan from which she could stage her own terrorist attacks or use it as a fallback position in a war with India. Actually, "winning" in Afghanistan is not the objective so much as denying it to one or several other forces in the region.

Yes, the shortsighted idea that we can use force to make things right, or even just to keep things from being worse (!)....continues.

That illusion.

Against the advice to us from the Supreme Allied Commander of Expeditionary Forces of World War II, ender of the Korean War, and 2 term republican President, Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower.

Against his advice to the effect that war resolves nothing.

It's only ideas that ever defeat ideas.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Another I just noticed from Ike:
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

From the mere worldly secular consideration, it's not even the best strategy to still be fighting over there. We already had as credible a deterrence to future attacks on our soil as is ever possible to establish -- already.

We cannot defeat the native people on their own soil of course.... So even from the worldly secular view of raw power, even in that view, it's a bad idea to be over there.

Having pointed out the worldly military viewpoint above, let's talk instead about what could actually help!

Better ideas given in a way that they could hear, to defeat the bad ideology of the taliban over time.

That's the only thing that could.

And the best ideas are those from Christ, even when we are too weak at some moment to believe, it's still how it is. In the end, only sacrificial love wins.

dp

Afghanistan 51st State! Maybe make North Korea the 52nd!

Dunno about wars but somehow we had 3 "false" nuclear alarms in span of like two weeks , so maybe we are ?

We have already been there for 16 years, 7 years longer than the Soviets who realized early on that it is a no win situation (just like the British, Alexander the Great, and anyone else who tried to “win” Afghanistan). We are a stubborn nation and will not admit defeat until the cost becomes so high that it cannot be ignored. Plus, war is good for the economy… (rare earth elements and poppies help too).

Technically the answer is "no", because, as you have learned, it is "still" and not "again".
"Operation Enduring Freedom" - the "enduring" part is apt.

Landon Caeli said:

We've been there so long, it's a part of us now. It's just as much ours as it is theirs.

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Spoken like a true imperialist.

Paying billions without receiving material property is foolish and just plain bad business.

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Yeah, money, that's what it's all about. More than a few lives were also lost (US casualties, because that's what we care about;UK casualties; Canadian; French although we like to pretend they weren't there all along; etc.; etc.; etc.) on all sides.

...Time to collect.

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Collect what?