ICHEOKU says it would have been a very good thing if only it could, be at last, finally achieved. But it will not happen because the same Deep State which installed Joe Biden in the White House are deeply invested in the weapons and war economy and Afghanistan is one heck of a profitable venture. They are used to their mouth watering omelette and they will not just stand idly by and watch Joe Biden kill the golden goose that lays the necessary eggs. The over twenty years running military adventure in Afghanistan is very good for business and the return on investment is profitably quite high too. So, suddenly drying up such a juicy source will not be tolerated by those fat cats who binge on American taxpayers money, spent on weapons and wars. Their appetite is greedily huge and they need to continuously feed it
Joe Biden will not be the first White House resident to set such a benchmark date of complete and total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Recall that one other president even added the closure of Guantanamo Bay in his to do list, but he was not allowed to do any of them throughout his eight years in the White House. Even President Donald John Trump wanted to do it but even the generals he put in positions in the Pentagon bucked him on that. So, Joe Biden will not be an exception as he too will fail because the forces amassed against closing the Afghanistan money maker are far greater than just one man in the White House. It cuts across a very large swathe of American Deep Staters, including members of both Democratic Party and Republican Party, as well as the retired and serving military and security community. Moving against them will be a very uphill task for Joe Biden to successfully accomplish and they will use every means necessarily possible to force him to back down or they will actively frustrate it.
Therefore the September 11th 2021, 9/11 anniversary, newly set date for the final return of American troops from Afghanistan will not be mission accomplished. As other previously similarly set dates came and passed, so will it also come and pass and American troops will still be stationed in Afghanistan. The Deep State will muscle Joe Biden into submission and force him into not fulfilling that promised withdrawal and in the alternative, to just dilly-dally and tarry along until he leaves office. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden will, some time very close to his September 11th 2021 set date, appear on television to tell Americans and the rest of the world that certain developments in Afghanistan has made it imperative that American troops extend their stay in the country. That his well intended decision to have all American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan has been frustrated by some unforeseen circumstances beyond his control and that in the interest of America's security, he has decided to defer the withdrawal date until further notice.
The total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would have happened a very long time ago if indeed the Deep State and the Pentagon wanted it to happen, immediately following the killing of Osama Bin Laden when America would have declared a real "mission accomplished" and beat it out of the desolate parch of earth. In fact, Afghanistan has no viable utility to America as to warrant the expenditure of the humongous amount of American blood and treasure that went into it. So, the withdrawal decision is a good and commendable thing which time came a very long time ago, even though it has remained unfulfilled and hopefully this time will be different. If Joe Biden can pull it off, it will count favorably in his column as the fella who finally accomplished what many before him only dreamt they had achieved. It will bode well for his legacy and will definitely win him some converts, especially among military families who will be relieved from their wards' over extended stay in that part of the world has finally come to end.
ICHEOKU says no amount of time spent in Afghanistan will ever be enough to accomplish whatever "mission goals" that demanded it, because it is the Afghani society that is troubled and not necessarily the Talibans or any other terrorist groups operating there. If the society was functional enough, those terrorists groups will not find it such a conducive place for their operational base. But it is a permanently failed State and no amount of American presence there, no matter how elongated, will ever right their ship of State. It has everything to do with the brand of ultra conservative Islamism being practiced there, which is entirely anti Western civilization. This makes it difficult if not impossible to have a safe workable tradeoffs that will be acceptable to America and the mullahs in charge of the Islamic orthodoxy to warrant a safe withdrawal. America wants a Western value based Afghanistan, but the mullahs of Kabul prefer the country's full return to their annihilistic Islamism and nothing else.
So, as long as the breeding madrassas which churn out millions of Islamist fanatics, who are completely brained and steeped in their brand of ancient Islamism, continue to thrive in Afghanistan, that long will Afghanistan be burrowing deeper into absolute Islamic orthodoxy. A matter made worse because nearly the entire population want it that way and majority always carries the vote. Whether America leaves on September 11th, 2021 or one hundred years later on September 11th, 2121, Afghanistan will still revert to their brand of extreme Islamism and also instal a Taliban government in Kabul. There is no other way around it. So, unless America is ready to completely annex Afghanistan as a territory or have an irrevocable permanent military base there built there to guard them in perpetuity, it will be better to cut the losses now and beat it. Afghanistan will never change or abandon its ideological extremism and will forever remain an extremists infested parch of desolate earth.
If Afghanistan's neighbors and other countries around that hemisphere are comfortable with it becoming a failed state in the event of American troops final withdrawal, so be it. If Afghanistan implodes, it is a crisis which America can watch from a afar and can always timely mount a response should America become threatened as a result. American troops were not in Afghanistan before September 11th, 2001 and they can always go back to kill off any terrorists should they ever threaten or dare strike at America again. America has been defending itself from so many foes including Russia, North Korea and Iran without American troops being stationed in those countries. So, the argument that terrorists from Afghanistan will strike at America again if the troops are withdrawn is simply a hogwash and not a reason to station them there indefinitely. But if not now, when? If not in September 11th 2021, when? Will September 11th, 2121 be any better? Just bring the troops home and September 11th, 2021 will be just fine.
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