Nick Mottern, of
BanKillerDrones.org and World Can't Wait advisor, looks at US strategy to
continue war on Afghanistan as part of controlling the region in his
article, "Biden
Betrays Another Campaign Pledge—Admits that U.S. Will Continue to Bomb
Afghanistan." Nick quotes Biden's July 2
press conference comment on "over the horizon" capacity, after which
Biden said he wanted to talk about "happy things," not Afghanistan:
Biden: "We have worked out an
over-the-horizon capacity that we can be value added, but the Afghans are going
to have to be able to do it themselves with the Air Force they have, which
we’re helping them maintain."
When the President refers to
“over-the-horizon capacity that we can be value added,” he is referring to a
plan, that appears might
cost $10 billion, to fly drones and manned attack aircraft from bases as far
away as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to assist the current Afghan
central government in defending itself against the Taliban.
His statement is the first
acknowledgment that the “over-the-horizon” air operations, that reportedly may
rely very heavily on drone assassination and drone targeting for manned
aircraft, will be directed at the Taliban...We have to question the U.S. having
turned the entire world into a potential “recognized battlefield.”
Even though U.S. ground forces have
largely left Afghanistan, it is clear that the Biden administration considers
Afghanistan a legitimate battlefield for U.S. air forces.
In
President Biden’s “value-added” remark, one can see a clear message: Regardless
of talk of a more humanitarian policy of drone killing and ending “forever”
wars, the president has decided that prolonged civil war in Afghanistan is in
the interest of the U.S... Read more.
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