BRING OUR TROOPS HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN AND FROM AROUND THE GLOBE.

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Last night, President Trump was asked by Tucker Carlson, on Fox : Why we are still in Afghanistan after 19 years of conflict.

President Trump's reply was basically: The Generals on the ground in Afghanistan told him, "Mr. President, it'a better to fight them over here that  in our country." And then President Trump basically said, "it's hard to fight that argument. Are you kidding me? It's easy to fight that crazy rationale.

I submit that if that is the benchmark for never ending a conflict, we in the United States are in dire trouble. We will be waging wars and having our troops stationed in countries all over the world in perpetuity.

After World War II, there was an end to the fighting and we brought our  troops home. We also brought  our troops home after Vietnam. But we still have troops  stationed on the Korean Peninsula, even after approximately 66 years, and have been in Germany for decades.

Folks, President Trump was right when he said he wanted to pull our troops back home while he was running for office. He was correct when he said he was going to pull our troops out of Afghanistan last year. But because of the military complex and war hawks in his own party and in Washington, they got him to step back and back down on that  order. I believe, he should have ignored these Generals and his staff in the White House that want to continue on with these wars. These Generals on the ground in Afghanistan  and in the Pentagon only have there own interests at heart. They continue to get their paycheck and a secure job if the war goes on year after year and decade after decade.

Can you remember back prior to the World Trade Center attack? We had no substantial forces in Afghanistan. Our country was at peace. Things in this country was humming along quite smoothly. After the  attack on 9/11,  ON OUR SOIL, yes we had a right and obligation to  respond and fight. And if you can remember, President Bush and the administration said we will hold the ones responsible for the attack on the WTC accountable and immediately identified Bin Laden and his group of culprits and went after them. When we captured his men and killed Bin Laden, I say and still believe that should have been the end of it. PERIOD. The mission was accomplished, it was done, it was completed.  Right then and there we should have brought our troops home and continued on with our life, taking care our country. But instead, the military war complex decided that we had to bring Afghanistan into our way of democracy and make money from a war.  In my  opinion, that was a BAD MOVE, people.

My position is one that if the United States is attacked, on our sovereign soil,we respond. If not, we let these other countries ALONE. If they have fights and internal conflicts among themselves, so what? Leave them fight it out among themselves. They have their own culture, customs and ways and they themselves can determine who will run their country and set their countries destiny.  Hell,  the Afghans were fighting Alexander the Great as far back as 330 BC and the Afghan warlords were fighting among themselves since 600 BC, so what makes anyone think that their culture and  Afghan people will ever change? People, they WON'T. Whom ever  is the leader of their country, that is who we deal with. We should not interfere in their internal strife.

As it stands now, the United States has spent TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS of dollars on the Afghan war (19 years and still going on) and we are rebuilding the country of the corrupt war lords while neglecting our own nation and our Southern border.

Folks when and if we are attacked, ON OUR SOIL, by a foreign country or power the  answer is a resounding YES, respond and respond with the might of our nation and power. We should wipe the attacking country off the map without any if, and or buts about it. If attacked we should immediately take the entire country out with no concern for squeamish lawmakers worrying about civilians . Let the attacking country know that they should not mess with the USA, while also letting other nations who are contemplating attacking the U.S. know that they will suffer the same fate.

But folks, if a country is not attacking our shores we should not be spending TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS attempting to convert other nations to our  way of life. Those trillions of dollars should be spent right here in the good ol' USA, providing for our homeless, our veterans, our roads and highways and bridges, our schools and inter-cities, our borders. The money should be allocated to protect and improve our countries prosperity.

As a side note : I would suggest that if President Trump wants to really get  Kim Jung Un to denuke North Korea he should immediately END the war with North Korea. Folks, he could do that with a stroke of a pen. Trump should call an immediate truce and end to the war with North Korea, pull our troops home and I predict, if he would do that North Korea would sit down with President Trump and deal. That would bring the two Korea's together and possible peace on the entire peninsula.

So, President Trump, bring  ALL OF THE TROOPS  home from Afghanistan and Syria. Bring all troops home from Korea  and I would  also suggest pulling troops out of Germany.

People, it is not the United States duty to fight the fights for every other country on the globe. Let them fight it out among themselves. If their populations do not like their leaders or the way their countries are being run, let the citizens in those countries rise up  and fight their own civil wars to make their own countries better and then rejoin the world community. Remember we fought our own civil war. We didn't go begging other nations to fight our wars for us.

I maintain, and have always maintained that the biggest threat to the United States is CHINA. They have already built up their war machine and military by leaps and bounds. I predict that China will attack the United States and possibly team up and make an alliance with Russia and other rogue nations like North Korea and Iran to increase their attack capabilities on the U.S.

Yet, the people in Washington ignore China'a threat and conduct business as usual.  China has a massive spy network within the United States and  the lawmakers and the administration in Washington know that to be a fact. But these spineless politicians continue to let China steal our  sensitive, secret and confidential military programs. China is currently compiling massive data bases of information on American citizens, our national infrastructure of each and every city in the United States and believe me when I say China is building the framework for an attack on American soil in the not to distant future. Wake up lawmakers, politicians in Washington, and military people at the Pentagon. China is n it our friend.

And what will be the situation if China attacks America and we have  our troops fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and thousands of other American troops dispersed around the globe? I'll tell you the answer, it will be  a disaster.

What we really need is our military men and women HERE at HOME, within our own borders always on the ready in the event of an attack on our soil, our homeland. Then folks, if  and when we here in America are attacked we can respond with the full might and force of our military, at a moments notice.

I also suggest we cannot count on Germany, France the UK, Japan, and the Europeans of helping us if we are in a raging war. Those countries and the European Union are currently conducting business deals with Iran, Syria, China and North Korea. People, these countries want our assurance that we  in America will protect their shores and come to their rescue if they are ever under attack BUT they DO NOT help the United States one bit.

Question: When is the last time the European Union, France the UK, Japan, Germany, or for that fact, any other country on the globe come to help any of our citizens when we experienced a catastrophic flood or disaster? My answer is NEVER. These countries quickly have their hat in hand and beg for Americas money and assistance when they experience a disaster but the generous acts provide to them are never returned in kind. We are on our own people, be sure of that. -- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decision. You decide.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, Ph.D., O.M.D.
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by email at:
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