An American scholar and political analyst says an open-ended occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and its proxies is the real intent of American policy.
Dennis Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a statement by General John Nicholson, the top US Army commander in Afghanistan.
Nicholson told NBC News on Friday that the war in Afghanistan “is still in a stalemate.”
“We are only 90 days into this new policy, but with the US forces that will be arriving, with the new authority that we have been given, put the pressure on external enablers, with the fact that we are condition based and not time based, we’ve set all the conditions to win,” he said.
Professor Etler said, “A popular American fantasy movie from the 1990s, ‘Groundhog Day,’ finds the protagonist caught in a time loop, repeating the same day over…