The situation is getting worse in Afghanistan

US Donald Trump’s presidency has gotten so much attention that America’s war on Afghanistan, now in its 18th year, has received only passing notice. Not anymore.

The situation is getting worse in Afghanistan is the heading of an analysis on the US’ presence in the region published by Fars news agency.

At least eight people were killed after a bomb detonated near university premises in Afghanistan's capital on Friday. Another 33 people were wounded in the explosion. Reports say the blast took place near Kabul University's southern entrance. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The attack came days after intra-Afghan talks in Doha, Qatar, featuring Afghan leaders and Taliban representatives. Both sides called for the reduction of civilian casualties to "zero" amid the rising death toll in the war-torn country. The statement released after the conclusion of the July 7-8 talks pledged to guarantee the security of public institutions, such as educational institutions, religious schools, hospitals, markets, water dams and other working locations.

However, several attacks across the country continued during and after the talks, resulting in civilian casualties. This certainly qualifies as yet another reason why Afghanistan is better off without US-led occupying forces and why a perpetual war lacks legality under International Law and UN Charte.
 

The United States and its NATO allies have lost the war on Afghanistan. To substantiate, President Trump says the US has squandered trillions of dollars on military operations in West Asia over the past two decades without winning any of the wars. In his words, “We never win, and we don’t fight to win.” This includes the ongoing war on Afghanistan, which has turned the country into a “petri dish” for terrorists to blend, indeed a laboratory of terror.

Trump is calling for a big increase in military spending to send “a message to the world” about America’s strength and resolve. He wants to provide soldiers with the tools to allegedly deter war. However, even then America is not going “to start winning wars again”. It actually results in intensifying the fight.

The Afghanistan war is messy, American troops target civilians, and weapons fall into the wrong hands. The Pentagon now believes that counter-terrorism, that is killing Taliban leaders, is more effective than counter-insurgency, allegedly protecting the Afghan population.

Coverage of the long-forgotten war has become thinner in the US media, but it's enough to give us the general picture: The war is not going well. It does not seem “winnable” in a strictly military sense of the word. And of course, the Trump administration and a number of high-ranking military officials have also told us that. The inevitable outcome of the war is already clear. American and allied troops will be going home eventually, sooner or later.
America will never win any other war in West Asia – considering almost 18 years of occupation and devastation. The US has waged wars on Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya. Trump says the US has nothing to show for the money spent in Wet Asia, with terrorist groups still posing a constant threat.

It’s a true statement only if he also includes the US army in the list of terrorist groups. Yet, what Trump says is an official acknowledgement of failure in America’s global leadership. The entire international community agrees with Trump on that. But don’t expect him to stop all wars.

America might be in the biggest decline with economy since the Great Depression, but it’s still business as usual for the Military-Industrial Complex and the War Party. They want Muslim nations to be dysfunctional in order to “stay and entertain”. 

President Trump is not their undoing either. He is condemned by his own words. He has promised “to defeat” the terrorist group of Daesh, but he didn't - this was Iran, Syria, Russia, Iraq and popular groups across West Asia that did so. Just like Obama and Bush, he will never do anything to stop the ongoing war on Islam - on the pretext of fighting terror of course.

By signing an executive order to ban Muslims and refugees from traveling to the US, he has made that absolutely clear. That is indisputable. Trump is right on warfare – with new tactics though.
As previously, this kind of colonial mentality will only create more chaos with America’s war of aggression in Afghanistan, a war that just won’t end. There will be no “light at the end of the tunnel”, the infamous metaphor from the Vietnam War years, as Trump is in a long war he says the US has already lost.
The prospects are dark, metaphors are not superfluous, and in the distance, victory will never be glimpsed - even if he stands tall, sends more troops to Afghanistan, and increases military spending. However, getting out is a win in certain ways by saving American lives and not spending trillions more on exporting terrorism, which will only multiply terrorists in the entire region.