Trump Considers Withdrawal from Afghanistan, McCain Demands Broadening War

John McCain has just recently come out and proclaimed that he has a strategy to lose the war in Afghanistan!  Okay, so those weren’t his exact words, but when you break it down, he has been out there opening his yap about a “Don’t Lose Strategy” in Afghanistan that has “cost us both lives and treasure.”

What is his strategy?  Is it perhaps a “Lose Only Strategy,” because the opposite of a “don’t-lose” operation would be to “lose-only,” right?  Well, apparently the Trump administration doesn’t agree.  With or without the help and advice (and authority) to implement a “lose-only” strategy in Afghanistan, McCain is dead set on initiating it come September.

As Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he has stated that he has met with our “best military leaders” (whoever they are) and they and he agree that this “don’t lose” strategy is the pits.  Therefore, in his role as “deputy Commander-In-Chief,” I guess, he has magnanimously agreed to take it upon himself to suggest a plan of action from this moment on.

Whether President Trump has been counseled on this plan of action is still unanswered.  What is known for sure is that McCain has dedicated his final term to remaining fixed in Afghanistan militarily for inexplicable reasons, claiming “national security interests.”

COULD THESE NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS BE THE INTERESTS OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, OF WHICH MCCAIN AND THE GLOBALIST WAR-SAVVY FINANCIERS ARE PART?  COULD MCCAIN BE ADVOCATING ON BEHALF OF POWERFUL INTERESTS WHO STAND TO MAKE A MINT BY KEEPING THEIR AFGHANISTAN GOLDMINE OPERATING AND INTACT?

It’s no secret that McCain’s vested interests abroad are making him very wealthy and that his intimate and entangling ties to Saudi investors and Clinton associates are about as transparent of granite.

The Trump administration may be considering a plan of action that’s in complete diametric opposition to such a “lose only” strategy and it entails nearly the total withdrawal of all US troops from Taliban country.

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a total U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan as part of the administration’s strategy review towards the 16-year conflict.

According to the Wall Street Journal, current and former administration officials say the White House is analyzing the implications of a scaled back military presence in Afghanistan.

“It’s a macro question as to whether the U.S., this administration, and this president are committed to staying,” a senior administration official said. “It doesn’t work unless we are there for a long time, and if we don’t have the appetite to be there a long time, we should just leave. It’s an unanswered question.”

Trump and his top advisors remain at odds with senior national security officials such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, both of whom support a troop increase for America’s longest war.

A plan from McMaster calling for an additional 3,900 U.S. troops in Afghanistan was shot down during a recent National Security Council meeting due to the president being unconvinced that a troop surge would ultimately change the tide of the war.

The White House is also looking at the possibility of a heavily reduced U.S. role in Afghanistan that would instead put an emphasis on drone strikes and special forces groups.

“It is becoming clearer and clearer to people that those are the options: go forward with something like the strategy we have developed, or withdraw,” the senior administration official added.

There is some question as to the validity of a notion that a majority of the White House staff is on board for this complete withdrawal plan However, it cannot be denied that this announcement comes on the heels of a very contentious time between McCain and Trump. Who would have thought ten years ago that a fully Republican Congress and a Republican President would be thwarted from doing what the American public actually wanted to be done through the efforts of one, very petty, small-minded and ignorant senator?

Former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Laurel Miller, who participated in McMaster’s policy review for Afghanistan, echoed Trump’s concerns last week over the ongoing conflict.

“I don’t think there is any serious analyst of the situation in Afghanistan who believes that the war is winnable,” Miller told Politico.

“It’s possible to prevent the defeat of the Afghan government and prevent military victory by the Taliban, but this is not a war that’s going to be won.”

Despite predictions by Mattis that the White House would have its policy in place by mid-July, a concrete strategy remains out of reach as competing factions in the administration struggle for control over Afghanistan’s future.

I think when it comes down to it, Mad Dog will win out with a scaled-down presence in Afghanistan. Leaving another power vacuum unnecessarily would be foolish, as has been evidenced by the Obama administration’s long-held hands-off foreign policies in the Middle East. The only hands-on that Obama considered worthwhile in that region in his eight years in office was installing the internet to the tune of millions of dollars in mud mosques in the desert.

And that was one of his better achievements…

Source: Info Wars

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