Donald Trump And The Loosing War In Afghanistan

Sgt William Olas Bee, a U.S Marine from the Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmsir in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, in May 2008.

Despite saying the US should get out of Aghanistan in 2013, US president, Donald Trump is now ramping up the war by deploying 3,900 more troops to Afghanistan, as part of his new war “strategy”.

The war in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001, is the longest war in American history. It has claimed the lives of more than 2,200 US troops (official version) and cost more than $800bn in a “lost” cause.

The US Defense Secretary James Mattis admitted their failure in a 2018 armed services budget hearing saying: “We are not winning in Afghanistan right now”.

Responding to Trump’s strategy, the Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said: “If America doesn’t withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower in the 21st century.”

A senior Taliban commander also told the AFP news agency: “For generations, we have fought this war, we are not scared, we are fresh, and we will continue this war until our last breath.”