Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is “very pleased” with President-imposed Joe Biden’s plan to keep troops in Afghanistan until some vague and nonspecific benchmarks are achieved.
“I think we’re not going to leave in May. We’re going to leave when the conditions are right,” Graham said.
The conditions will never be “right,” making the occupation of Afghanistan into a permanent windfall of profit and prestige for defense contractors and Pentagon bureaucrats. This is the grand design of the military-industrial complex.
“I like what Secretary Blinken and the Biden Administration is doing,” Graham said.
“If we leave too soon without a conditions-based withdrawal, ISIS and al-Qaeda will come roaring back. Women will suffer greatly,” he added.
While Graham continues to parrot the propaganda of the War Party, some former military personnel are speaking out and attacking the false narratives used to justify endless war.
“We need to reject the comforting, now decades long illusion that if we stay just a little longer, we can leave under better, cleaner circumstances,” veterans and former Afghanistan advisers Gil Barndollar and Sam Long wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
“The opposite is closer to the truth: Each passing month increases the odds that the small U.S. force remaining in Afghanistan eventually departs in real haste, either as a result of the collapse of the Afghan state or a dramatic Taliban military breakthrough,” Barndollar and Long added.