“Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban,” begins a shocking admission. And it appears in an even more shocking publication: Military.com.

“But we knew this years ago,” says Jim, who surfaced from deep in the heart of Texas to forward this article.

Indeed. And if the point of this pointless war was to “pacify” a nation that neither needed nor wanted pacifying, the USSA did indeed fail. But if instead it was to enrich and empower the usual gang, the war succeeded admirably, with almost a trillion of our dollars flowing into their pockets. 

I want my money back.

Meanwhile, pundits argue that the USSA impossibly “[sought] to establish democracy in a country rife with corruption and cronyism.” Ahem. And how does that differ from the “democracy” ruining the USSA?

We can glean another lesson from this analysis:

Doug Lute, a retired Army lieutenant general who help direct Afghan war strategy during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, said that what the Afghans received in tangible resources they lacked in the more important intangibles.

“The principle of war stands — moral factors dominate material factors,” he said. “Morale, discipline, leadership, unit cohesion are more decisive than numbers of forces and equipment. …”

That’s a precept to remember during the upcoming war against Our Rulers. 

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