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2025-04-13 Home Front: Politix

US Senate Reviews Military Presence in Afghanistan From 2001 to 2008

[ToloNews] The Afghanistan War Commission held a session in the US Senate to assess the presence of the United States and its allies in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2008.

In this session, General David Barno, the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, criticized the lack of coordination between US political and military strategies during that period.

Barno said: "I arrived in Afghanistan in October 2003, almost six months after the invasion of Iraq. Afghanistan was governed at that time by an interim government under Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
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, but very much still in the grip of warlord armies who controlled more tanks, more rockets, more artillery and more heavy weaponry than the central government."

Additionally, Henry A. Crumpton, former head of the CIA's mission in Afghanistan stated during the session that widespread corruption and failure to address fundamental reforms were the main causes of the US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
mission's failure in Afghanistan.

Crumpton said the US approach not only failed to develop Afghanistan but increased its dependency.

He stated: "The systemic corruption grew at rapid speed, and I’m sure you’ve read the Inspector General’s report, the SIGAR report 164-pages, was incredibly damning, where tens of billions of dollars the US government basically siphoned off. And it's not just about the money; it’s about creating dependency."

Andrew Natsios, former head of the US Agency for International Development, also noted that a large portion of Washington's financial aid to Afghanistan was spent on infrastructure and construction projects, but due to a lack of expertise and financial corruption, it had little impact.

Natsios added: "No more than 25 percent of the cabinet ministers were fit to be ministers in the cabinet. The other 75 percent were tribal leaders appointed as cabinet ministers to build political alliances and to keep an eye on them in Kabul."

US forces and their allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the banner of fighting terrorism. After two decades, the last American soldier left the country on August 31, 2021.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-13 2025-04-13 02:00|| || Front Page|| [11161 views ] Top
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#1

Do you think something called 9-11 and the Taliban role will popup?

Will they expose Biden's (LSD) puppet masters for the DISASTROUS way they dumped and ran?

Thus leaving many behind for torture, prison and even to be killed.

Operation Enduring Freedom
allowed for the May 1, 2011, US Navy SEALS elimination of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-13 07:40|| 2025-04-13 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, better late than never, what?

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-04-13 11:05|| 2025-04-13 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Some comments posted around the net by others that I collected during the O'BIDEN Hose over of Afghanistan.
The Senate would do well to extend the timeline of it review from start to finish.

a quick sample of various author comments follow:

#1 First, keep in mind all of our current political bull__t is because the Biden Administration really wants you to forget that they just caused the biggest military ______up in American history. There are still Americans trapped in Afghanistan because we ABANDONED them there. (something that would normally be inconceivable). Our friends are dead, or soon will be. America has never looked weaker. We have never looked like a worse ally. Nobody is going to be foolish enough to trust us again, all because of how badly this administration sucks.

#2 Note. I don’t even say how badly Joe Biden sucks, because he’s clearly a meat puppet they trot out to babble what he’s told, and then mute and rush offstage before he ____s his pants.

#3 There were hundreds of individual events/images during the Afghanistan ______ up, any of which would have dominated a month-long super outraged 24/7 news cycle if a Republican had been in charge. They impeached Trump for a phone call and bitched about shirtless buffalo hat guy for months, but images of people literally falling off of airplanes vanish from the news in the blink of an eye. Our evil news media and big tech is doing everything in its power to get America to focus on anything other than the fact Biden made our country look like weak, pathetic, inept, cowardly, losers.

#4 Leave no man behind was our thing. Abandoning people should be ______ing unconscionable. It is against the fundamental moral basis of who we are, but not to these ______ers. But they certainly can’t let the public focus on that.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-13 15:24|| 2025-04-13 15:24|| Front Page Top

#4 NN2N1

When the puppet masters are hard-core globalist commies that's what you get. There is no short answer that doesn't include lamp posts and short ropes.

Posted by alanc 2025-04-13 16:51|| 2025-04-13 16:51|| Front Page Top

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