The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:
“The professional predilection of military,” says retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson in a Thursday Real News Network interview with host Paul Jay regarding the Afghanistan War policy President Donald Trump announced last week, “is to keep the war going, not to end it, because that's where you get your rank, that's where you get your progression, your notoriety, your fame, your fortune, and so forth.” This has been the case, Wilkerson argues, for the last 5,000 years and has “just gotten a little more sophisticated” over time.
In Afghanistan, with Trump having put the generals in charge, Wilkerson says we should expect the military to be ”reinforcing strategic failure and thus deepening that failure” that has developed over the last sixteen years of US military action in the country.
Wilkerson, who is a professor at the College of William & Mary and served as chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration lays out the basics of the “deepening the failure” phenomenon in his first comments in the informative interview:
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