Biden announcing troop withdrawal on April 14th. [Source: npr.org]Biden’s claim that he is ending the forever war is misleading. As
The New York Times reported, the United States would remain after the formal departure of U.S. troops with a “shadowy combination of clandestine Special Operations Forces, Pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives.”
Their mission will be to “find and attack the most dangerous Qaeda or Islamic state threats, current and former American officials said.”
The Times further reported that the United States maintains a constellation of air bases in the Persian Gulf region as well as in Jordan, and a major air headquarters in Qatar, which could provide a launching pad for long-range bomber or armed drone missions into Afghanistan.
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It is impossible to win a war that you cannot define. That seems to have been the main lesson to be drawn from Afghanistan, where a so-called victory was unreachable. President Biden’s decision (“It’s time to end America’s longest war”) to bring back all American troops by September 11, 2021, was a courageous and right decision in what was by any measure a quagmire.
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Biden isn t ending the Afghanistan War, he s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
Published: April 17, 2021
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
(This article was originally published at CovertAction Magazine.)
On April 14, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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