Trump in Afghanistan, Part 1
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Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.
~ Historical proverb
One of the reasons why I left the National War College was these men like—McMaster, Mattis and others, were stupid, and after a while you couldn’t really talk to them…
These [generals] are pansies, these are not men. These are not men who went out to jobs. These aren’t men who went out and risked their lives to do something creative. These are men who got addicted to some kind of shooting and have no idea what it means. They have no idea what regime change means.
~ Dr. Steve Pieczenik
Prologue: Why is Afghanistan called the ‘graveyard of empires’?
Aimal Mehrabi, who lived in Afghanistan, in a Sept. 14, 2012 post on Quora.com, stated the following answer to this intractable question— Why is Afghanistan called the ‘graveyard of empires’?:
“Many of the world’s ‘super-powers’ and largest empires have tried and failed to capture Afghanistan. Afghanistan has historically been an extremely strategic piece of land to hold, given its location in Central Asia.
Some of the super powers that have tried and had major difficulties capturing Afghanistan:
- Alexander the Great (circa 330 BC) conquered Persia in 6 months and then spent nearly 3 years attempting to subdue Afghanistan. The losses incurred and the resistance faced were some of the contributors to the eventual fall of his empire following his death
- The British had three Anglo-Afghan wars spanning the 19th and early 20th centuries. The end result of these struggles were heavy British losses as well as the end of British military influence in Afghanistan
- The Soviet Union attempted to capture Afghanistan in its sphere of influence by spreading socialism there. While it initially gained traction, religious and tribal forces within Afghanistan resisted and this led to the Soviet-Afghan War. With help from the CIA and Arab/Muslim fighters from other regions, the “Mujahedeen” succeeded in drawing the USSR into a protracted struggle that many believe led to the end of the Soviet Union. (The pebble that cracked the Soviet Empire)
- It can be argued that the US conflict in Afghanistan which began in 2001 and continues to this day is another example of technological and military power being unable to subdue the tribal forces of Afghanistan.
Thus, Afghanistan has gained the moniker ‘Graveyard of Empires’ for causing superpowers to overestimate their odds of victory and overextend themselves in attempting to conquer it.”
If Afghanistan (which arguably isn’t really a country), has this strategic and historical reputation as being the land where nations go to die, then why is President Trump violating his repeated campaign pledge and instead sending untold thousands of more U.S. troops to die in a land where nations go to be destroyed—to perish in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires?
Trump’s Afghanistan War Speech and Alex Jones’ Critique and Interview
On 21 Aug. 2017 at 9:00 pm (EST) President Trump gave a major national address to America at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia to defend why (contrary to his repeated presidential campaign promises) that he would not withdraw U.S. troops from “Obama’s War” in Afghanistan, but would instead increase U.S. troops there under the presumption of completely destroying the resident radical Muslim terrorist group, the Taliban.
The next day, InfoWars founder, Alex Jones, interviewing Dr. Steve Pieczenik, a former Undersecretary under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and a Psychological expert for the CIA and several military branches, presented his understanding of Trump’s new Afghanistan plan. However, Jones first stated his own understanding of Trump Afghanistan’s speech saying, “[President Trump] is planning a very strong retreat, or a true build down… but he’s first going to take out the real opposition instead of playing with it like the Globalists have been doing, to then bring in a real economic deal that will benefit the U.S., India and Pakistan, but if that is a package that doesn’t want to play ball, then he’s going to really use India and others to basically crush them economically and start playing hardball…”
President Trump at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia making his case to expand “Obama’s War” in Afghanistan.
“What I think we’re seeing is real presidential strategy here and my gut is the exit is a very strong victory pulling out with an economic deal; not giving the extremists a safe haven and cutting off the Globalists operation playing footsie with the Al-Qaeda/ISIS folks… Is that accurate or is that wrong?” Jones asks.
Dr. Pieczenik’s Critique against President Trump’s Renewed War in Afghanistan
PIECZENIK: It’s completely wrong! Not only has the president lied to the American public, but more importantly the generals—Mattis, McMaster—the people we helped to put in [power] have lied to themselves and to the American public. These are generals who know better than to say that more troops, putting into a constant war an insurgency will clean out the area of Afghanistan when I’ve been in Afghanistan. They don’t know the history; Trump again repeats that we were attacked in 9/11. This is always about 9/11. I told you from Day One when I came on this show it wasn’t about break [white] board[s] or [Steve] Bannon, or any of the guys, it was about guys like me and others who said, ‘These generals are cowards; they’re moral, intellectual cowards.’ I’ve known that about McMaster because we paid them. I knew that about Mattis, but I had warned my men in G2—You put these guys in and they act in a different way, I will turn against you, and I will have every American turn against you because this is a disaster, there is no strategy.
Putting in more men…? McMaster is an idiot. He knows very well [his Afghanistan War strategy will fail] and does nothing. The effect that you’re going to put pressure on Pakistan is absurd. The Pakistani [and CIA Director] Pompeo are the smartest (knows) that this was created by ISI—the Inter-Services Intelligence [Pakistan’s leading intelligence agency] and the CIA then created… Let me just state further that there was no terrorist attack from Afghanistan or Iraq and these generals know it. They’re lying, they’re moral cowards and they’re ineffectual…
This is the most absurd thing you could have done. Trump is now on notice that we will work against them. The Alternative Right and the Tea Party with guys like me and Steve Quale and others in Montana said, ‘This is enough!’ This 9/11 attack was an inside attack by CIA, furthermore, not one of those generals has any idea how [Hamid] Karzai came in there. I was there the day Hamid Halizah [sp?], the NeoCon who was born in Afghanistan, a CIA operative who worked for me in the West Bank and Gaza (a total moron who never did anything productive in his life), brought in Karzai into Afghanistan,” and Alex Jones added, “and his heroin-dealing brother.”
JONES: [Trump] has done some bad things, but he has done a lot of good things too and I see Globalists hating his guts. Is this the beginning of the sellout by him like [former Trump advisor Steve] Bannon kind of signaled this isn’t the same administration? What are you saying is really happening?
PIECZENIK: What is really happening is Bannon is correct; that out military is creating a self-delusional scenario. McMaster has never won a war. He wrote a book, (Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam), which shamefully tells about dereliction of duty and he’s committing the very dereliction of duty! He knows that in order to increase his prestige and his presence he’s brought in Mattis, who also never won a war. Every one of those generals have been out of Iraq. They came in right after [the Surge].
JONES: {At this point Jones interrupted} Generals always want to fight the war everyone’s lost to prove they can do it… But I agree with you if it is delusion they really believe they’re going to win with this plan though and they really believe they’re going to let the military actually wipe out the real ISIS and Al-Qaeda folks that we know we’ve been protecting. So, isn’t this a different strategy, or are you saying it’s all bull—?
PIECZENIK: “It’s bull—. The real ISIS was created by the CIA, the real Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA. What are you talking about? We don’t have a war on terror—this 16 years old insurgency in a place that’s not even a country. McMaster knows that, Mattis knows that… Trump made a big mistake, he should have gone with his impulse. He knew better not to listen to the generals… I don’t care what a man says, I care what a man does. He was brought in for his instincts not to hear the generals. And we actually helped the generals to come in to stop a war; that was my mistake and others, but we will get rid of these generals. They should have been court-marshaled for the arrogance and the stupidity and the number of lives [wasted on fruitless wars].”
JONES: My instincts say this is bad, but now I’m behind the desk and things are different. How did they get him to do this when he’s very pigheaded and always does what he thinks is best?”
PIECZENIK: “Because you got to remember when his father wanted to get rid of him and put into disciplinary action he was sent to a military academy. He then refused to serve in Vietnam, so he basically looks to generals as if they are their mentors and fathers. These generals are what I call “idiot savants”—They know what they read, but they don’t know how to create a war and [how] to win a war. Unlike Eisenhower and Marshall who knew exactly how to initiate a war and stop the war, they’ve never done it…” When Jones added the element that the generals don’t know how to control a war, Dr. Pieczenik countered, “They don’t even know how to execute a war; they’re a disaster. ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis is a disaster. He hasn’t created really anything other than his reputation.”
JONES: You seem really mad. The military sources I’ve talked to are disgusted by this [escalation of the war in Afghanistan by President Trump].
PIECZENIK: They should be disgusted because men will die. Trump has now created a greater, greater graveyard for our men which shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
JONES: What about the argument that since we’ve lost so many troops we’ve got to win this, [therefore is] the only way to win is to kill everyone in Afghanistan?” Pieczenik replied, “That’s exactly what happened in Vietnam; we kept on putting more and more men until we lost [over] 50,000 men’s lives, 1,250,000 [injured] and we killed 3 million Vietnamese and we lost the war where we walked out of there…” Jones replied, “What about Trump’s statement that we’re going to offer you a carpet of gold, he said money?” “Afghanistan is so corrupt, they’re running billions of dollars, the CIA knows it, we knew it. It was nothing.
Alex pressed Pieczenik and said, “Let’s bring up the opium production was 3 percent worldwide out of there in 2001, now it’s 97 percent out of Afghanistan, what’s going on with the opium?”
PIECZENIK: “The opium is a crucial element of export. Our Marines protect it whatever it’s getting in… I don’t want to talk about the opium”. When asked by Jones what at this point did he want to talk about, Pieczenik stated, “What’s going on is that Pakistan and India for 75 years have been shooting at each other on a daily basis over Kashmir; have we stopped it? No. Can we stop it? Possibly, but we don’t need soldiers for that. I need a Rex Tillerson who is smarter than they [the generals] are, who ran a $400 billion company who understands negotiation diplomacy. I don’t need an idiot who’s been reading Socrates or some moral books and have no idea what he’s like…:
Afghan man harvesting the opium fields while U.S.(?) soldiers guard this international crime.
JONES: Oh I love how Mattis tries to impress everybody that he’s read a philosophy book.
PIECZENIK: We paid him money in the [Tom] Clancy franchise. I was not happy. I was hoping that he would act in a more professional way, but I taught at the [National] War College. This man’s an idiot… who should have been court martialed for this decision. He’s performing dereliction of duty. The problem is our generals have been patsies. They have been treated like feminine… prima donnas. If I was General George Marshall I would have fired 600 of those generals on top as he did in World War II and we won the war. We are going to have a blood bath that you’ve never seen before and I’ve warned you (and this isn’t about being correct) about terrorism and that’s bull—; this is not about 9/11, that’s bull—. (Alex interrupts to warn Pieczenik about cussing) …. I’m furious because we helped put in these generals and I thought they were smart enough and had half and brain…
JONES: You did warn them during the campaign and afterwards don’t let them go wild, don’t expand these wars, end these wars?
PIECZENIK: And what happened? He went right into that [Afghanistan quagmire?] … [interrupted]
JONES: Does Trump get any credit though, that he controlled them so far and didn’t let them expand the war in Syria?
PIECZENIK: No credit whatsoever. This is not the question of a grade, this is a question of what we call the “Existential Moment”. You want to go to war? It takes about 6 seconds to go to war. You want to get out of war? It’s taken U.S. 17 years to find out what the hell we’re doing there; we don’t belong there, men are dying there every day, we have no strategy and putting more men into this place is not principled rationality, or principled morality.
JONES: And here’s the question: Why are they doing it? You agree it’s delusional and they think there’s a plan to extricate?
PIECZENIK: This is $6 trillion in that war and who’s going to make money? KBR. Who makes money in Africa? KBR. What are we doing in Djibouti? The same thing (KBR). I’ve got soldiers who come back and say, ‘What the hell was I doing in Africa?’ ‘Why am I in Djibouti? Sudan? Somalia?’ The soldiers have no idea what they are doing.
JONES: Why don’t we do what China is doing, going in with economic power and take over?
PIECZENIK: I agree with you. We don’t have the brains. I thought Trump would be smart enough to do that, Alex you just hit it on the head. China went into Djibouti and instead of using guns they built 400 miles of railroad from Djibouti to Ethiopia. What do we do? We sign a bunch of young Christian kids who don’t speak Arabic, they don’t speak French and we send them with guns to Somalia and Sudan to support corrupt individuals. That’s our military. They’re dysfunctional. We have billions of dollars invested in men who have never really done anything in the real life and they have been treated like prima donnas. It’s the most socialist system I’ve ever seen—they get up every day, they know what to do… [interrupted]
JONES: What you’re saying, it’s like Paths of Glory American style?
PIECZENIK: This is like Paths of Childishness. These are pansies, these are not men. These are not men who went out to jobs. These aren’t men who went out and risked their lives to do something creative. These are men who got addicted to some kind of shooting and have no idea what it means. They have no idea what regime change means.
One of the reasons why I left the National War College was these men like—McMaster, Mattis and others, were stupid and after a while you couldn’t really talk to them. And when the Iraq War occurred I said to all of these guys going in, ‘You’re going to lose’ and you won’t even know what you’re doing, you will be there for years on end because Paul Wolfowitz and zombies…
*N.B.: This part of the dialogue reminds me of C.S. Lewis’ 1943 classic, The Abolition of Man, an a priori apologetic in defense of objective value over subjective value, including a defense of Natural Law and Natural Rights. The final chapter defines the eventual penalties of this existential end of humanity or what C.S. Lewis writes to be “a distant future in which the values and morals of the majority are controlled by a small group who rule by a “perfect” understanding of psychology, and who in turn, being able to “see through” any system of morality that might induce them to act in a certain way, are ruled only by their own unreflected whims. In surrendering rational reflection on their own motivations, the controllers will no longer be recognizably human, the controlled will be robot-like, and the Abolition of Man will have been completed.”
Thus, following the logic of C.S. Lewis which transcends time and the Ages, these generals like McMaster and Mattis that are so gung ho to get U.S. into another protracted war we can’t win and serves no vested national interest is simply: Vietnam Redux. These Deep State apparatchiks are indeed like C.S. Lewis proclaimed all men who possess power without judgement to be… Men without chests.
JONES: Here’s the thing, maybe they’re not stupid, maybe they’re parasites and all they want is the money that war brings?
PIECZENIK: That’s fine, I don’t care how you say it, they’re stupid, they’re parasites, they are the malcontents and misanthropes of our society.
JONES: Why then do people think that this is really a build down for real, to then go in, claim we’ve made a deal with them, paper it over and then haul ass out of there. From your sources, you think this is a real escalation of invasion because notice he didn’t say any numbers [of troops to be sent to Afghanistan]. Tell me what do you think?
PIECZENIK: No, it’s nonsense. It’s absolute nonsense. This is not a strategy it’s a cockamamie series of tactics that McMaster has no idea what he is talking about.
Epilogue: ‘Look carefully at what is not seen’
Years ago, when I was studying music history I came across an aphorism on the subject of Aesthetics—”To understand what is seen, you must look very carefully at what is not seen.” That said, to summarize Part 1 of Alex Jones’ engaging and revelatory interview of Dr. Steve Pieczenik, you have to suspend belief and think in opposites—hear what is not heard; see what is not seen. In other words, whatever statements you hear from the war generals, (who are merely stooges of the fascist Deep State), think the opposite. Think—the artificial computer-generated world of the Matrix or George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. Why? Because the words you are hearing from these prima donna apparatchiks correspond to the pretext of every war the U.S. (and Europe) has gotten U.S. entangled in since the French Revolution (1789-99).
War is a CIA contrived game to undermine the color of law, remove from power people and nations, ideologies and religions it can’t control, and to put into power people and ideologies it can control for their Globalist masters. The operative word is CONTROL. War is never about what they say it is about. Wars have historically always been about the acquisition, the wielding, the seizing of these three objectives—Power, Money (resources) and Control.
*N.B.: Part 2 of Jones’ interview of Dr. Pieczenik will be posted in a few days.
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