30 January 2017

By Shahamat Emarat

The presidential inauguration ceremony took place recently in Washington, transferring power from the black skinned Obama to a white skinned billionaire, Donald Trump. Trump is an enigma both to the Americans and the billions of people around the world. No predictions can tell his course of action and the ramifications they entail.

Afghanistan – which continues to burn in the fire of occupation lit by the arrogance of previous American leaders – hopes that Trump and his cabinet will not follow the crooked unintelligent footsteps of his predecessors in order to both stave off America from destruction and relieve Afghanistan from the evil of invaders.

But if he insists on following the path tread by Bush and Obama and continues the illegal occupation of our country without reviewing the results so far, then it is not far that Trump shall sink even deeper into the quagmire that is Afghanistan without any means to pull himself out from its depths.

If anything could have been achieved with killings, beatings, bombings, tortures and prisons then surely no method was left unused over the past nearly 16 years. Not only America but the fifty other coalition nations used every tool of force but could not achieve anything except lose tens of thousands of soldiers in battles and billions of dollars in a sinkhole, increased hatred of America globally and in Afghanistan, ruin its own image by propping a corrupt immoral regime, establish historical record in narcotics output, morph from a guardian to a violator of human rights and like the late Amirul Mumineen Mullah Muhammad Omar predicted, drop America from the top of the list (prestigious countries) to its bottom.

Even though America has never waged a war so long and passionately intense in its entire history but if she insists on continuing her failed arrogant policies, one can foresee that she will ruin herself beyond repair due to a historically shameful defeat. And nothing is hard for Allah, the Almighty.

What will America achieve with 300 extra troops?

Kabul's declining and rotten regime has stated that their foreign master (America) is sending 300 extra troops to Helmand to prevent its fall to the Mujahideen.

Ever since the day American President – Obama – admitted that America was unable to defeat the Afghan insurgency, the Kabul regime has gone into panic mode and they are desperately scrambling to prevent the further demoralization of their troops and politicians.

The regime has desperately contacted their superiors in Washington and conveyed to them that unless America takes mitigating steps it is very likely that 2017 will be the last year for the regime's semblance of control and political unity.

Thus the Pentagon – in a comical gesture – has recently tried to reassure the regime supporters that America will not completely abandon their protιgιs in Kabul but will continue to support the regime and as a sign of their commitment send a whole 300 extra troops to Afghanistan.

We say to the regime that your benefactors – supported by 49 states and a half a million strong Afghan mercenary army – exhausted the prime of its youth, expended 2 trillion dollars, convened countless international conferences and tried dozens of military strategies, yet in the end they failed and ultimately Obama had to admit that they can never defeat the freedom fighters of Afghanistan.

If the Americans and NATO – despite 15 years of occupation – failed to defeat the Taliban and couldn't even fully secure Kabul let alone the outlying provinces then exactly what do you expect the 300 extra troops to achieve? At the height of the U.S. troop surge the Americans had up to 60,000 foreign troops in Command Region South (Kandahar, Uruzgan, Helmand) and at least 15,000 were stationed in Helmand. Yet despite these numbers they could not secure this historical land.

If you now think that the Americans will achieve with 300 troops what they failed to do with 150,000 then your situation is even more dire than we had imagined. 

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