Why the US won't be leaving Afghanistan

[Klaralven]

With Afghanistan’s national peace talks stalling a year after the US-Taliban Doha peace deal, negotiations appear to have become a continuation of war by other means.

While both the US and the Taliban continue to raise questions about the actual implementation of the Doha agreement, the “Intra-Afghan” process the deal produced has faltered many times over the past few months.

One of the primary reasons for this is how the Taliban and Kabul continue to use war and violence to force the other into submission or to resist subjugation, respectively.

For the Taliban, war remains very much alive because they see it as a viable means to achieve their political objectives, which they broadly define in terms of a return to Islamic rule.

For President Ashraf Ghani’s administration, however, military resistance remains their only hope to limit the extent to which the Taliban can impose their will on the nation.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/02/why-the-us-wont-be-leaving-afghanistan

[mitch96]

1. follow the money.. The military industrial complex is making too much money... nt

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Plus, Afghanistan is loaded with rare earth minerals, something that the Chinese want too.

If the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, the U.S. will almost certainly lose access to that commodity.

[Chainfire]

3. Are we justified in perpetuating a war for access to commodities?

I think that we could survive without Afghanistan's resources.

That is not why we are there, we are there to keep our military in practice and to keep the money rolling in to those who's businesses support the military. We have been there for 20 years and apparently have not attained our unidentified goals. (unless the goal was to have a training and weapons proving ground with live human targets) We need to get out and bring the Afghan US supporters with us. Settle them in Texas where they would be welcomed with open arms. Chalk it up to just another in a chain of misguided interference in other people's nations. The terrorists that are the biggest danger to the US are living among us. Redirect the resources from foreign interference, where we don't belong, to the elimination of American Terrorists who are a clear and present danger to our Democracy.

As they sang in West Side Story, "Krupke, we have troubles of our own."

[mitch96]

4. "perpetuating a war for access to commodities?" THAT is reason countries go to war

Civil War.. Slavery
Spanish war with the peoples of South and Central America? .... Gold
First Gulf war? Oil
Pacific WW2? US was cutting off oil and raw materials for Japanese military..
The list goes on.. Yes I think it's all about one country wanting another countries commodities
The people that make the arms are more than glad to supply them with the materials of war.
YMMV
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[Celerity]

5. a river of neocons and other war hawks on Morning Joe have been saying we will never leave

sigh