Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires - Would you hurry it up a little Please?

I'm officially a Vietnam Era Veteran. I served in the U.S. Navy during the officially designated timeline of the Vietnam war, from August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975. According to the "rules", if you served at least 180 days of active duty during that time period and received an honorable (or general?) discharge, you are considered a Vietnam Era Vet.  If you served in a combat role or support combat role in Vietnam you are considered a Vietnam Vet.

That's almost eleven years. Of course the imperialist rape and destruction of Vietnam lasted much longer than that, just like Afghanistan.  Now we have the Afghanistan war (and Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Venezuela, Ukraine, Lebanon, and 135 countries with special forces operations in them, but this is about Afghanistan) at 14 years and counting. 

But that's not enough.  It will never be enough.

"The top international commander in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Gen. John Campbell, has sent five different recommendations to the Pentagon and to North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials in Brussels, each with its own risk assessment, officials said.

The options include keeping the current U.S. presence at or near 10,000; reducing it slightly to 8,000; cutting the force roughly in half; and continuing with current plans to draw down to a force of several hundred troops by the end of 2016.

Some officials worry that too large a cut could cause the Afghan government to come under increased pressure from the Taliban and other militants, officials said. Others believe a smaller force of several thousand Americans still could be effective at backing the Afghan government.

Looming over the debate are the lessons of the Iraq withdrawal of 2011 and the rise of the Islamic State extremist group. Many critics and some officials believe that the Iraqi military would have been able to better fight off the Islamic State’s advance last year had the U.S. maintained a force of at least several thousand advisers in the country."

  http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-allied-military-review-new-options-for-afghan-pullback-1443139109

Here we go again, round and round we go, how many troops remain, nobody knows. Until President War Criminal Obama makes a decision based on the "best options". 

I wonder if sometimes the dude can't wait for his 8 years to end so he doesn't have to carry on with some of these lies? But that's probably not the case since he seems to enjoy lying and will simply carry on with the lying when he's done at the White House. Maybe he doesn't even know he's lying, maybe he really is one of the lizard people being given direct telepathic orders from the great lizard in the sky.

I remember when Occupy was getting ready to start, they had made the keystone of the effort the demand to end the war in Afghanistan. That was over four years ago now.

This was the original mission statement that came with a pledge:
"October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of the Afghanistan war and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.
We call on people of conscience and courage—all who seek peace, economic justice, human rights and a healthy environment—to join together in Washington, D.C., beginning on Oct. 6, 2011, in nonviolent resistance similar to the Arab Spring and the Midwest awakening.
A concert, rally and protest will kick off a powerful and sustained nonviolent resistance to the corporate criminals that dominate our government."
And the Pledge:
"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that criminal occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine to demand that our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning ."
Somehow that changed from early August to sometime in September to Occupy Wall Street without any focus on ending the Afghanistan war.

I've always wondered what happened with that. My feeling is that is when the Occupy movement was coopted, but I have no direct evidence.

At any rate, the Afghanistan war was not ended and here we are over four years later and they're going to extend it again. As I've said many times, they can't leave Afghanistan with unfinished business. That unfinished business includes remaking the Middle East and paving the way for the Zionist's Greater Israel, destabilizing the Caucusus states and Russia, and completing the quest for a New World Order. For the U.S. government and it's Murder, Inc. military machine, Afghanistan has always been about location, location, location. It's been described as the world's largest land based aircraft carrier.

What can we do?  I don't know man, looks like we lost our chance.  And try getting an antiwar movement rev'd up now during a fraudulent and manipulative presidential election, especially with all those nominally opposed to war supporting Imperialist Bernie Sanders. 

Rock and a hard place.