The United States is not interested in establishing peace in Afghanistan rather it is trying to use the Asian country as a “staging ground for intervention throughout the region and as a card to play in its geo-political deck,” says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.
Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday, after US President Barack Obama that Washington will “continue to help strengthen Afghan security forces and support President [Ashraf] Ghani and the National Unity Government in their efforts to forge the peace and progress that Afghans deserve.”
“Afghanistan serves as an essential staging ground for US imperialism’s destabilizing the heart of Eurasia and disrupting its integration into Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR)…