The Longest War

Those words, used in the title, make a great fiction movie. But, when they're used in the dialog in which men and women on both "sides" have died and or are maimed for life and CONTINUE to do so; Those words are criminal. The one thing for sure, the tens of thousands of troops sent in harms way were not there to "protect our freedoms" or Kill/get Bin Laden ...No; It's murder and control of the third world and control of the resources, primarily Opium...

This is like a documentary made by Goebbels...Shame on you frauds! USAF vet.

I write with a heavy heart. This is a very short and basic history lesson. The United States of America and Russia are the founding fathers of the "Taliban", "Al-Qaeda", "ISIS". Because the way Germany was treated after WW1, Germany rebelled and said screw you Allies for leaving us in poverty. So years pass, history repeats its self and WW2 starts with more years of death, annihilation and suffering of peoples. So humanity learnt from that and rebuilt the economy of Germany and Japan to economic global powers. And for some reason years later we've forgotten that. You can't go into a sovereign state, tear it apart and walk away. Shame on you Russia and U.S.A.

Drafted Vietnam War age 18, U.S. Army Field Artillery, life expectancy 6 months. Age 18 told that I Volunteered to be U.S. Army Special Forces Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol life expectancy 2 Weeks. Combat Schools Republic of South Vietnam, U.S. Army Airborne School (included Air Mobile today's Air Assault), U.S. Army Ranger School (two classes before mine got massacred), U.S. Army Special Forces School, U.S. Army Special Forces Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School as Strategic at Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, not the Tactical U.S. Army Ranger Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols. Age 18 killed Vietcong at less than 10 meters, Age 19 killed North Vietnamese Army Soldier, each LRRP of my 4 member Team credited with killing Hundreds on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. After College, University Re Entered the U.S. Military as Officer, Combat Service Support as NOT wanting anything to do with Combat.

After Graduating from over 6 Career Field Schools stationed with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Europe, as Missile Officer, Nuclear Weapons Physics and Physiology Officer. While on "The Duty" (Nuclear Control Orders), and Staff Duty Officer a message came in addressed to ALL Major Military Commands and Government Agencies, requiring anybody with Combat Experience to Report to Ramstein Air Force Base, Building xx (a Hanger) Date Time Group (DTG), attached was a list of about 1,000 names, social security number (used instead of assigned Service Numbers). Field Uniform, Assigned Weapon(s), Field Gear. I read the first pages only not the entire message and the list, believing this did not concern me, as was not a Nuclear Control Order.

Next Morning routine brief the Chief Of Staff, he will then brief the Commanding General. After the Briefing I went home. Next day I got called in to see the Commanding General, he said did you Read this Message. He showed me my name on that List. With a copy of that message I went to Ramstein Air Force Base, a C-5 Hangar. There were about a 1,000 from all Branches of Service, and Government Agencies. We got assigned to U.S. Army Special Forces Teams. Boarded C-141s were not told were we were going nor mission. Doors opened sign said "Baghdad International Airport". Training, U.S. Ally Iraqis Army to fight the U.S.S.R. backed Iranians of Ayatollah Khomeini during the Iran Iraq Wars, I lead a Iraqis Combat Brigade of over 100,000, 3 other Team Leader Led the other 3 Iraqis Combat Brigades north of Baghdad, to the South a Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable to Colonel) Led the Iraqis Combat Divisions. U.S. Ally Iraq was losing as the 30 Million Kurds turned Traitor and allied with Iran. The Millions of Iranians that previously fled the Massacres of Ayatollah Khomeini turned Traitor and allied to Iran. U.S. Ally Iraq was losing.

CIA Operation Cyclone

Afterwards we were rotated with the Teams of CIA Operation Cyclone. Training, Arming the CIA's Afghan Muhajeen at the Afghan Refugee Camps Pakistan. The Pakistanis Inter Service Intelligence as Allies of the U.S.S.R. did not do that. After Training, Arming the CIA Muhajeen they went across the Border and started killing each other as Revenge Kills from Decades, Centuries ago, Solution each U.S. Army Special Forces Team Member would lead a 12 man Afghan Muhajeen into Afghanistan to kill U.S.S.R.

FIM-92s sent to Us were defeated by the U.S.S.R. use of Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) that broadcasted the Friendly Signal to the FIM-92s "Stinger" Missiles. We did raids of the U.S.S.R. Depots and got SA-7s with no Identification Friend Or Foe, IFF, and shotdown U.S.S.R. MI-24s and the SU-25s hunting Us.

The U.S.S.R. could not figure out how we moved undetected because they did not know about the Thousands of Miles of mining tunnels, everywhere including inside the Mountains, that started since the Age of the Pharaohs of Egypt as Before Christ, as Millions from the other Nations went to Afghanistan to dig up anything of value, and sell along the Old Silk Road.

There were also the interconnected Afghan Water Well Tunnels, that allowed Us to appear inside the U.S.S.R. Base built around the Afghan Water Wells.

The idea started as to How to end this. Kill the age 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 U.S.S.R. "Conscripts", knowing that they had Living Parents, brothers, sisters, Relatives, Friends, and they would protest the U.S.S.R. War at Afghanistan, we knew that the 17 to 22 year olds at the U.S.S.R. fearing being Conscripted would Demonstrate, Protest. We did not kill the Old U.S.S.R. Military intentionally. We ambushed the U.S.S.R.s Main Supply Route from Pakistan thru the Khyber Pass to Kabul, we ambushed the U.S.S.R. Main Supply Route 2 from Tajikistan into Afghanistan to starve out the U.S.S.R. Bases at Afghanistan.

After the U.S.S.R. left their Pro U.S.S.R. Afghan Government and Pro U.S.S.R. Military became the Afghan Taliban 1990. Our CIA Muhajeen continued to fight the Pro U.S.S.R. Afghans as the Northern Alliance. When we Returned 2001 the former CIA Afghan Muhajeen of 150,000 helped Us overthrow the 5 Million Afghan Taliban Government and Afghan Taliban Armies (not "Militia"), See 2018 Movie 12 Strong.

OBL was never there during CIA Operation Cyclone he was at Northern Yemen creating his Al Quada to do Terrorist Acts against the House of Saud to get the U.S. Military Bases out of U.S. Ally Saudi Arabia, that were built by the Bin Laden Group his Parent's Corporation.

Because of all of this I was called some kind of "Expert" pertaining to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Kuwait, Indonesia, Philippines, etc., and instead of being away from Combat, I was Months, Years before the "Tip of the Spear" or as others told me I got "Shafted". As involved with EVERYTHING since 1982 ---> 2020

I know what I'm talking about. I'm 70 and served in Vietnam. Sending American troops to the Middle East is every bit as stupid as sending them to Vietnam was. Trillions of dollars and many lives simply wasted. Vietnam gave us nothing and Iraq and Afghanistan will give us nothing except a reputation as wasteful idiots.

Getting Bin Laden was necessary but prosecuting a war accomplishes nothing. It only impoverishes us both financially and in reputation. I was drafted but today's troops are all volunteers so they have no one to blame but themselves. I would have never gone into the military during Vietnam if there was no draft. Even as a teenager I could see it was a pointless waste of American resources and a huge mistake. The Pentagon Papers proved me right, so did history.

I thought the documentary was very well done. We have to stop these politicians from taking us to war on little or no evidence of a quick and positive outcome.

A lot of the facts you would find else where, you get in the documentary. The story begins when the soviets leave, and ends with Afghanis blaming the US for not sticking around longer. Some information is more flushed out in this film, than something you would get from PBS. Which makes sense, PBS isn't going to go into detail on how intelligence officers were discussing how to mount Bin Laden's head on a pike and preserve it with dry ice.

One issue I do take, is this film acts as though enhanced interrogation worked. When Congress and the CIA both officially state there was zero actionable intel from torture, it didn't prevent any attack, and was wholly unnecessary. Not sure why the film doesn't even take a balanced approach. Or since they are contrary to all other claims about enhanced interrogation, they could have at least provided evidence of what attacks were prevented, thanks to what specific torture technique. But spooks gunna spook.