[Peace-discuss] Q: Who wants the war in Afghanistan?

[C. G. Estabrook]

A: The US political establishment: they fear that Trump may end it.

As it has publicly asserted for at least forty years, the US government wants to continue the war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) to retard the economic integration of Eurasia and the rise of “peer competitors,” Russia and China. 

9-11 was an excuse to continue the US invasion of Afghanistan, which began in effect in the Carter administration “to give the USSR a Vietnam of its own,” as Carter’s National Security Adviser said.

Thus the US political establishment is horrified at the thought that Trump might end the war, which threatens both Russia and China in southwest Asia. That animates the hysterical attempts to remove Trump from office (Russiagate, impeachment) before he’s able effectively to alter US war policy from Carter through Obama.

—CGE