IS AFGHANISTAN LOST? WHO CARES.

ICHEOKU says in answer to the question shouted at Joe Biden, who really cares if that desolate, tribal-treachery infested country is lost or not. But even as a devil's advocate, lost to who anyway since the Taliban and the government in Kabul are all Afghanis. They are merely two sides of the same coin, two contending ideological opposites battling for the soul of Afghanistan as is normally obtained in any two political party country. So, what use is it anyway and for what benefit is it to America, saving Afghanistan. They only know how to live in ruination and preferably so; so to ruination let them return of their own freewill. People who are largely caves and mountains rural dwellers, who prefer their ancient ways of doing things, should be allowed to exercise their God's given right and freedom to do so, case closed. 

There is no use trying to impose a modern civilized western society on them, so, the West should indulge them and allow them to revert to their ancient ways. Enough of the expenses in blood and treasure in a place which does not deserve it and where the supposed beneficiaries, the Afghanis, are rather an ungrateful people. Recall that their former President Hamid Karzai, a closeted Taliban, accused American troops of committing war crimes and genocide against the Taliban. America has done more than enough protecting them and if it is not good enough for them, so be it. Like Joe Biden rightly said, it time for Afghanis to defend themselves and Joe Biden spoke for most people, including ICHEOKU.

Although ICHEOKU does not usually agree with Joe Biden, not a fan; but his putting his feet down on the matter of complete withdrawal of United States of American forces from Afghanistan is one foreign policy decision which he got absolutely right. It has nothing to do with partisan politics or the continuing disagreement with the manner he was installed in the White House last November 3rd, 2020. It is a commendable decision made in the best interest of every American, particularly those whose wards, sons and daughter, moms and dads, are in active service who have been rotating in and out of Afghanistan this past 20 years. It is also a good decision as it will stop the bleeding on America's treasury which have seen $2 trillion already melted away. 

Although those who lost their loved ones in Afghanistan might be tempted to ask, why now and not much earlier before their loved ones were killed. To these Americans, ICHEOKU says there is never a time specific when to cut losses, but the important thing is that it was eventually done. Their loved ones did not die in vain as they died fighting for their country, admitted the mission objective was murky at best and not clearly spelt out. However, those who died before Osama bin Laden was killed, died absolutely for a reason; they were actively searching for the 9/11 terrorist mastermind who was eventually located and summarily dispatched to go meet his 70 virgins. That was when the "mission accomplished" would have been declared and the troops pulled out immediately back home. 

Anyway, it is always better late than never and the fact that it was eventually done and being implemented is enough consolation. The decision will save more American families from experiencing such tragic loss of their own loved ones in that damnable place and avoidable war. ICHEOKU says America will stop getting into all these otherwise avoidable and needless wars the day the military draft will be re-instituted, so that everyone in America will begin to have a dog in any resulting fight. That way all those Washington DC war profiteers will be more circumspect before lobbying for any war somewhere around the planet, aware that their immediate family members, sons or daughters, will be in harm's way and possibly fall victim to an enemy's bullet or IED or other forms of bombing. 

But the less privileged of the society constitute the bulwark of the soldiers and wasting 2,218 of them in just Afghanistan alone appears to be no "big deal" to these war profiteering and mongers in Washington DC; and you wonder if the departed loved ones agree and share that conclusion. An Afghanistan war that has cost American taxpayers $2 trillion, killed 2,312 American soldiers including a general, gravely wounded 20,66 other soldiers, many of who can never make full recovery to once again rejoin society as full functioning members of the society; is a war too expensive and which should have been ended a long time ago. So, it does not matter anymore if Afghanistan is lost or not, as that was not the primary mission objective of sending the troops into Afghanistan in 2001. 

America did not go into Afghanistan to win or conquer Afghanistan. They went to find Osama bin Laden and they found him and killed him, case closed. Every other thing after that were mere propaganda spooned to continue milking the cow of American treasury by the war profiteers. It  will be good if a commission is raised to investigate the Afghanistan war, both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom's Sentinel because they reek of abject failure and corruption. A matter made even worse because some sources claim that about 40% of the $103 billion spent on reconstruction in Afghanistan went into private hands including insurgents, Taliban, war lords and government officials. It is also possible that similar statistics could be unearthed in the trillions of dollars spent on the war itself; begging the question, who got them?

ICHEOKU says where is the Afghanistan military and police force who American people were told "have been very effective in fighting the Taliban insurgent?" If they existed, why were they surrendering in droves to the Taliban without even, in some cases, firing a shot in defense of their homeland. Why are some of them even choosing to be executed by the Taliban upon surrender, rather than fight and die in defense of their country? Did managers of the war purposely lie to the American people about the progress of the war objective in order to keep the spigot of the treasury open and continuously flowing dollar bills into the war effort? Did they also lie about the preparedness of Afghanistan military in order to cover up the billions of dollars wasted in "training and equipping" them? 

Is it possible that they did not care at all whether or not Afghanistan military were trained and equipped and ready to face the Taliban, as long as it provided them an avenue to continue making money and turning profits for their war corporations masters. If an American military trained Afghanistan military could so easily, without any serious resistance, fold up like cardboard in the face of the Taliban, what does it say about the quality of military training which they received? Was it that they were not trained properly or that those who were trained are members of Taliban which explains the easy with which they routed the real Afghanistan military. Which one is it, because the quality of America military training is now implicated and thus indicted as a result of the rapid collapse of the Afghanistan military which they trained. 

Who is to blame; the teacher or the student or did the teacher teach the wrong student? How could anybody explain the speed at which the Taliban is sweeping across Afghanistan, with the Afghanistan military deserting their duty posts, surrendering their arms and weapons, including US Humvees which the Taliban are driving around and into battle fields. Only a commission of inquiry can ferret out these answers and therefore one is called for. Congress should set up a commission of inquiry to look into what went wrong with Afghanistan. Twenty years, two trillion dollars, General Joseph Harry Greene killed, thousands of other war dead and wounded Americans, yet 300,000 American trained Afghanistan military could not defend and protect their country against less than 70,000 Taliban fighters. This cannot be flushed down the toilet and forgotten by accepting the impending, inevitable complete and total collapse of Afghanistan; otherwise, what was the point? It is a shame.