2000th US Military Death in Afghanistan’s Endless, Pointless War

by Jeff Davis

The US military just suffered its 2000th death in Afghanistan. Even if you believe the government’s narrative about 911, then shouldn’t we have declared “victory” with the death of Osama bin Laden in April, 2011 and pulled out? Why did we stay in Afghanistan only to lose a good portion of Seal Team Six in a helicopter crash, not to mention hundreds of other Americans killed for no clear reason?



A recent news article reports: “It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness. After nearly 11 years, many by now have grown numb to the sting of losing soldiers like Pfc. Shane W. Cantu of Corunna, Mich. He died of shrapnel wounds in the remoteness of eastern Afghanistan…”

“Nearly every day the Pentagon posts another formulaic death notice, each one brief and unadorned, revealing the barest of facts – name, age and military unit – but no words that might capture the meaning of the loss. Cantu, who joined the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade on Sept. 11 last year and went to Afghanistan last month, was among five U.S. deaths announced this past week, as the Democrats and Republicans wrapped up back-to-back presidential nominating conventions.”

America has no draft for fear of the anti-draft movement of the 1960s making a come back. Apparently, it’s “OK” for some poor 18 year old, who can’t find a job in the MidWest to be forced to “volunteer” for the Army and to die in a pointless war, but it’s not OK for the son of a rich man to be drafted to fight for his country.

The article continues “American troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a pace that doesn’t often register beyond their hometowns. So far this year, it’s 31 a month on average, or one per day. National attention is drawn, briefly, to grim and arbitrary milestones such as the 1,000th and 2,000th war deaths. But days, weeks and months pass with little focus by the general public or its political leaders on the individuals behind the statistics. Each week at war has a certain sameness for those not fighting it, yet every week brings distinct pain and sorrow to the families who learn that their son or daughter, brother or sister, father or mother was killed or wounded.”

“As the war drags on, it remains a faraway puzzle for many Americans. Max Boot, a military historian and defense analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, has called Afghanistan the ‘Who Cares?’ war. ‘Few, it seems, do, except for service personnel and their families,’ he wrote recently. ‘It is almost as if the war isn’t happening at all.’”

Which of course is the way the liberal media wants it. They don’t want to have to explain why Obama with his Nobel Peace Prize is taking so long to withdraw US troops.

Most likely we’re staying in Afghanistan so that the CIA can make a healthy profit off the poppy fields and the drug-trafficking, which the Taliban had earlier closed down. There were rumors of the CIA profiting off the drug trade in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and off the drug traffic flowing through Central America.

There are reports of massive natural resources that have been found in Afghanistan, which some US corporations no doubt would like to steal. And don’t forget that multi-billion dollar natural gas pipeline project back in 2001, which the Taliban had awarded to Bridas Oil of Argenetina. Some people have speculated that the war on Afghanistan was really just a retaliation against the Afghans for not choosing Unocal.

Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers on 911 came from Saudi Arabia. None of them came from Afghanistan. The Taliban government offered to help the US hunt down al Qaeda if George Bush would show them the evidence that al Qaeda was responsible for the 911 attack. Bush chose instead to start bombing Afghanistan. You don’t suppose Afghanistan’s position on the eastern border of Iran was yet another reason why we’re still in that country –as a possible staging base for a future attack on Iran. We’ve been fed a lot of lies about 911. You might want to check out the videos below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=972ETepp4GI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IZaUuK_d0