Cost of the Afghan War: A new book, America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010

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District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) November 29, 2010 -- What has been the cost of the Afghan war? Why is America in Afghanistan? What is the reason for the Afghan war? Although written based on his personal experiences in Iraq, these questions and more are discussed in a new book by Michael M. O’Brien, published by AuthorHouse.

– By the afternoon of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush knew we had been attacked by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. He also knew where bin Laden was—in Afghanistan as the welcome guest of the Taliban regime, a group of extreme fundamental Muslims who ran the country. President Bush ordered an invasion of Afghanistan and the destruction of the Taliban regime. It is assumed he also ordered the capture of Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.

– The United States invaded Afghanistan and achieved rapid success. The Taliban regime was on the run, and so was Osama bin Laden. The cost of the Afghan war, and Afghan war casualties, was relatively low. But then General Tommy Franks, the overall commander of Coalition forces in Afghanistan, allowed bin Laden to escape over the mountains of Tora Bora, along the Pakistan border. We have never been that close to capturing bin Laden since.

– Then Bush made the decision to invade Iraq, drawing forces from American soldiers in Afghanistan. America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010, discusses the Iraq war and its mistakes. One of the biggest mistakes was not maintaining our success in Afghanistan, which is one of the main causes of the Afghan war today.

– The cost of the Afghan war is currently 2,200 Coalition and 1,300 US forces killed, in a war that has lasted nine years with no ending in sight. This is primarily because George W. Bush pulled out of Afghanistan and invaded Iraq with bogus justification, or based on outright lies.

– But the cost of the Afghan war has also been the reputation of the United States. After the events of September 11, 2001, the US had the sympathy and goodwill of the world. The invasion of Afghanistan to peruse Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime was a valid operation, and was going well. But then we invaded Iraq, taking away American troops in Afghanistan, and creating a civil war and insurgency in the same country we were supposed to save from Saddam Hussein.

– In Iraq, the US attempt to “transition” from Coalition to Iraqi control of its country and its destiny has been difficult. This is discussed at length in America’s Failure In Iraq. This transition was sidetracked when Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the CPA, disbanded the Iraqi Army and National Police, thereby leaving the country without its own security infrastructure. Now, the same thing is happening in Afghanistan, with “transition” being nothing more than a word, not a reality. The Afghan security forces are years away from being able to defend their country, just as they are in Iraq.

– Barack Hussein Obama campaigned on the pledge to withdraw American soldiers in Iraq, and American soldiers in Afghanistan—yet we are still in both countries today. Iraq is getting better, only because of the surge of American soldiers in Iraq 2007. This was after four years of inaction by the US that left hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, wounded and homeless. But Afghanistan isn’t close to turning around. Obama is now setting an Afghan war timeline for our withdrawal, but this seems to change as much as the Iraq war timeline.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010 is an analysis of the “military-industrial complex” that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about in 1961. The author concludes that we are already there. The cost of the Afghan war (as well as the cost of the Iraq war), has been America’s reputation— and lives—in exchange for huge profits made by major US and foreign corporations.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010 is a “must read” for anyone who loves America, but hates what its leadership keeps doing time and again. The United States doesn’t declare war any more. Instead, it conducts “police actions” that leave the American people in the dark, sends too few soldiers into the fight, and augments these with civilian contractors—a.k.a., mercenaries.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010, is a first-hand account of the United States’ involvement in Iraq in the post-Operation Iraqi Freedom period, and draws parallels with the Afghan conflict. It describes the cost of the Iraq war, the cost of the Afghan war, and draws comparisons between the two. It was written by a West Point graduate, a former Infantry officer in the US Army, and a former member of the George W. Bush administration. Michael M. O’Brien served as an advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, trave

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