Because the consensus of state/ruling class/power elite opinion said so. Duh? The real issue here is the intramural rivalry within the global-capitalist empire, with the Eastern axis, especially China, but also Russia and Iran, wanting to develop Afghanistan for the BRICS, while the Western axis wants to retain Afghanistan for itself. As I have said all along, Trump is a Nixon-Rockefeller moderate Republican, not a “Nazi,” “fascist,” “Alt-Right,” or even “Alt-Lite.”What this shows is that presidential politics is a waste of time, and that sensible people need to forget all about this Red/Blue nonsense just More…