PELOSI’S
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The Mexican
Army made two seizures in Ensenada on August
17 (1,036 pounds of meth, heroin, and fentanyl) and August 18 (1,653 pounds of
meth, fentanyl, and marijuana).
The Mexican
Army discovered an
active drug lab on August 25 in Tecate and seized four tons of methamphetamine.
The Mexican
Federal Police seized 350 pounds of
methamphetamine in an active drug lab in Tijuana on August 26.
The Mexican
Federal Police seized 20,000 fentanyl pills
in an active lab in Mexicali on September 10.
World View: Head of U.S. Central Command Says Afghanistan War Is Unsustainable
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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- New head of U.S. Central Command says Afghanistan war is unsustainable
- Political opposition to Afghan strategy grows
- DJIA plunges 800 points on Tuesday
New head of U.S. Central Command says Afghanistan war is unsustainable
An Afghan command and a U.S. Special Forces soldier scan the horizon for enemy movement in Afghanistan, on May 24, 2018. (Military Times)
According to Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the incoming head of the U.S. Central Command, the death rate among Afghan government security forces is unsustainable. He said he does not know how long it will take to develop an Afghan force capable of defending its own country.
Speaking at a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, McKenzie said that the war is currently stalemated:
They’re not there yet. If we left precipitously right now, they would not be able to successfully defend their country.Their losses have been very high. They are fighting hard, but their losses are not going to be sustainable unless we correct this problem.
However, he did not spell out what changes are necessary to correct this problem. Also, he said he does not know know how long it will take to develop an Afghan force capable of defending its own country.
Long-time readers will not be surprised by this at all. In 2009, when President Barack Obama announced a “surge” of troops into Afghanistan, mimicking President George Bush’s successful troop surge into Iraq, I wrote that the Afghanistan troop surge would not be as successful as the Iraq troop surge. The Iraq troop surge was to eject foreign jihadists from Iraq, and it was successful because the Iraq Sunnis also wanted to eject foreign jihadists from Iraq. (“Iraqi Sunnis are turning against al-Qaeda in Iraq (01-Apr-2007)”)
But the Taliban are not foreign fighters. Afghanistan’s last generational crisis war was the extremely bloody Afghan crisis civil war, 1991-96, which mostly pitted the ethnic Pashtuns, who are Sunni Muslims and later formed the Taliban, versus the Northern Alliance of Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks in northern Afghanistan. Now, twenty years later, Afghanistan is in a generational Awakening era and a new young generation of Pashtuns is coming of age, raised on stories their parents told them about the atrocities committed by the Northern Alliance, and they are looking for revenge.
But you do not have to know anything about generational history to understand what is going on. You just have to understand that there was an extremely bloody, violent civil war in 1991-96, pitting the Pashtuns versus the Northern Alliance of Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks in northern Afghanistan. And you have to know that the Taliban are Pashtuns, and that young Pashtuns are looking for revenge for atrocities committed in the 1990s.
That is why the government cannot possibly control the Taliban and why trying “peace talks” with the Taliban does not even make sense. Even if the Taliban leaders agreed to some settlement, it would not satisfy their sons and daughters, who are not going to be deterred in their search for revenge. That is the way the world works.
The Taliban have repeatedly and consistently said that they will not agree to any peace deal until after the Nato troops have withdrawn.
There are some 16,000 American and NATO troops in Afghanistan, acting in a support role to the Afghan army. McKenzie said the U.S. and its allies need to keep helping the Afghans recruit and train forces to fight the Taliban’s estimated 60,000 troops. The 60,000 figure is considerably higher than previous estimates, which were around 20,000. Military Times and AP
Political opposition to Afghan strategy grows
At the Senate hearing, an angry Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich, said: “We’ve been at it 17 years, 17 years is a long time. What are we doing differently when it comes to the Afghan security forces that we haven’t done for 17 years while being focused on this?”
McKenzie said that it is different this time because we have a key, new strategy in Afghanistan: peace talks with the Taliban. I guess he has forgotten numerous attempts at peace talks in the past, all of which have failed for the reasons that I just gave. McKenzie said:
I don’t know how long it will take. I do know that we’re working it very hard. I do know that they are making improvements. I do know that today it would be very difficult for them to survive without our and our coalition partners’ assistance. And we should remember that NATO and other nations are with us on the ground in Afghanistan.
That last point is true. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says that the NATO countries have reaffirmed their commitment to Afghanistan’s “long-term security and stability” despite mounting Afghan casualties.
Sometimes there is an uptick, an increase in violence because different parties try to gain the best possible position at the negotiating table. So it may actually become worse before it becomes better.
What this obscure statement apparently means is that the “uptick” in violence is a GOOD thing because it means that the Taliban want to gain an advantage before they negotiate peace.
As I have written in the past, there may be a dynamic going on. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is totally baffling to the mainstream media and most politicians, but as I keep pointing out, everything makes perfect sense once you understand that he believes (correctly) that the U.S. is headed for a world war against China and Pakistan. So there is undoubtedly a larger purpose in not withdrawing from Afghanistan. As war with China and Pakistan approaches, President Trump wants to keep American troops active in Afghanistan and to continue to maintain several American military bases in Afghanistan, including two air bases in Bagram and Kandahar International Airport. These bases will be valuable in any future war with China. Under these circumstances, having troops in Afghanistan is what matters, whether the Taliban are defeated or not. Stars and Stripesand RFE/RL and Foreign Policy
Global Terror Index: Afghanistan Deadliest Country for Jihad in 2017 Courtesy of Taliban
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Terrorism, primarily at the hands of the Afghan Taliban, killed more people in Afghanistan than in any other country last year, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2018 released by the Institute for Economics and Peace on Wednesday.
The index, which covers terrorist activity last year, revealed:
In 2017, Afghanistan was the country that recorded the highest number of deaths from terrorism, replacing Iraq which had held the position since 2013.Afghanistan had 4,653 fatalities and 1,168 terrorist incidents in 2017, with the Taliban being responsible for 77 percent of these fatalities. Although deaths in Afghanistan rose less than one percent from the prior year it was still the second-deadliest year on record, with 2015 being the deadliest. Both terrorism and battle-related deaths have risen steadily over the past decade.
Pentagon officials have determined that the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, particularly along the border, is home to the highest concentration of terrorist groups in the world, including the Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
In Afghanistan, ISIS was “responsible for 14 percent of terrorism deaths, or 658 people in 2017, a 26 percent increase from the prior year,” the GTI report noted.
“It is Afghanistan’s second most active terrorist organization, with 2017 being its deadliest year on record. The majority of the deaths caused by the group were in Kabul, at 387 deaths,” the index added, referring to ISIS.
The GTI found that despite the major losses it sustained at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition and local forces, ISIS remains the most lethal (4,350 deaths) terrorist group in the globe, followed closely by the Afghan Taliban (3,571), which only operates in Afghanistan.
GTI noted:
The four terrorist groups responsible for the most deaths in 2017 were the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Taliban, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. These four groups were responsible for 10,632 deaths from terrorism, representing 56.5 per cent of total deaths in 2017. In 2012, just prior to the large increase in terrorist activity around the world, these four groups were responsible for 32 per cent of all deaths from terrorism. A decade ago, they accounted for just six per cent. …The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, often referred to as ISIL, ISIS or Daesh, was the most active terrorist organization in 2017, a position it has held since 2015. Primarily active in Iraq and Syria – the countries in which it sought to create a caliphate, or autonomous Islamist state, ISIL’s presence and impact decreased substantially in these countries in 2017.
On Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who has been nominated to command U.S. forces in the Middle East and Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Afghan war is at a stalemate and warned “against an abrupt withdrawal of American forces or change in strategy despite frustration over the status of the 17-year conflict,” the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The index noted:
Unlike ISIL, the Taliban is active solely in a single country. All of the 3,571 deaths and 699 terrorist attacks in 2017 occurred within Afghanistan. … As a whole, terror attacks by the Taliban are becoming more deadly with attacks in 2016 killing an average of 4.2 persons per attack, rising to 5.1 persons in 2017.
The United States has devoted nearly $1 trillion to the war in Afghanistan. U.S. troops have suffered 2,272 deaths and 20,412 injuries, mostly at the hands of the Taliban, since the war began.
Taliban jihadis are reportedly active in about 70 percent of Afghanistan. Gen. McKenzie told lawmakers the Taliban has “60,000” jihadis at its disposal.
Late last month, the Long War Journal (LWJ), a component of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank, accused the U.S. government of grossly underestimating the strength of the Taliban.
LWJ noted:
In its latest quarterly report, US Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) approximated the Taliban’s strength as between 28,000 and 40,000 fighters. That number should be doubled, at the minimum, because the USFOR-A estimate is wildly unrealistic given the level and intensity of fighting in Afghanistan, as well as the number of Taliban casualties claimed by Afghan security forces.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has made “reconciliation” the primary tenet of its strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, which has been raging since October 2001.
The Trump administration has intensified U.S. efforts to bring the Taliban to the peace negotiation table.
The index did acknowledge:
A fall in the intensity of conflict in the Middle East, the decline of ISIL, and an increase in counterterrorism activity has meant that the total number of deaths from terrorism declined for the third consecutive year, falling by 27 percent to 18,814 deaths in 2017. This compares to 25,774 the year before. The number of deaths has now fallen 44 percent from its peak in 2014.
Despite the record number of terrorism-linked deaths, the index ranked Afghanistan as the second country most impacted by terrorism, after Iraq.
OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS
SOARING DEATH IN AMERICA: MEXICO DELIVERS THE HEROIN.
SURGE OF ILLEGALS POUR OVER AMERICA’S OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS FOR
OBAMA’S IMPERIAL AMNESTY, AMERICAN JOBS and WELFARE!
Mucho gringo welfare just over the border!
MEX WITH 37 CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS FINALLY DEPORTED… wonder
if he’s back looting already???
more at this link:
In FY
2012, ICE says it removed 409,849 illegal aliens. Fifty-five percent of them (or 225,390) were convicted
criminal aliens, the largest number of criminal aliens removed in agency
history, ICE said.
MICHELLE MALKIN: another brutal murder by another illegal
criminal long on the loose in our open borders!
Non-deportation rate drops — to 99.2 percent
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Homeland Security Department has granted
legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under
President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the
latest numbers released Friday.
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within
our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of
California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
“While the
Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border,
authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican have transformed parts of
the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders
are common.
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