President Donald Trump speaks to members of the National Security Council at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2017 (DOD/U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)
Fabius Maximus: Our generals reveal why we lost in Afghanistan, and will continue to lose
Summary: Afghanistan was invisible during the campaign, but has surfaced again in the news. This time, so rare in modern America, we hear some truth about the war from our generals. They reveal why we have lost so much for so little gain, and why we continue paying in blood and money to get nothing. All that remains is for us to listen — and act.
Trump is a clown president, but he fills one role of a court jester: he says truths that are unspeakable in the Capital. As he did on a July 19 meeting in the White House with his military advisers (per NBC News).
“We aren’t winning. We are losing.“
That is refreshing honesty after 15 years and ten months of happy talk from both civilian and government officials. Our military leaders did not respond well to this obvious truth, as awareness of the failure of their past plans implies skepticism about their shiny new plans. Their response to Trump’s words reveals much about why the war in Afghanistan has run for so long, at such great cost, for no gain to America. It deserves your attention.
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