The ‘Jamming’ of Trump on Afghanistan Has Already Begun

by | Feb 9, 2017

Really it started in January when they sent 300 Marines back to Helmand Province just before Trump’s inauguration. Who knows if Obama was even consulted.

Today Gen. Nicholson told the Senate Armed Services Committee he needs “thousands,” more “advise and assist” troops to embed with the Afghan National Army.

They’re not pushing for a whole new bogus COIN surge yet, but this may be just the first step. Weak loser Obama just rolled right over for Petraeus and the gang back in 2009. Trump is either going to prove how tough he is by escalating even faster, or is going to resent being boxed in and push back against them.

My bet is on the former. And America’s longest foreign war rolls on toward the 2020s.

About Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 5,800 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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