Going wrong way: U.S. surges troops, B-52’s into Afghanistan

Two weeks ago President Biden announced the U.S. would completely withdraw troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That’s the good news.

In so doing, Biden broke his predecessor’s agreement 14 months ago with the Taliban to remove all U.S. troops by May 1, 2021. The Taliban weren’t pleased, saying the delay could trigger renewed attacks on Americans that had been halted for the entire 14 months of the original withdrawal agreement. That’s the bad news.

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To guard against renewed Taliban attacks caused by breaking the agreement, Biden is surging 650 new troops and 2 old B-52 bombers into Afghanistan.

That’s how it goes with America’s insane perpetual wars. We break an agreement to remove our troops on the agreed deadline, then resort to a troop surge to prevent blowback to our duplicity.

To the two certain things in life, death and taxes, we must add a third: U.S. perpetual war.