Lara Logan Tells Tucker: U.S. Govt. Selected Chaotic Consequence in Afghanistan

Fox Information host Lara Logan mentioned Wednesday that the U.S. authorities may have stopped the chaotic scenario that has developed in Afghanistan if it had wished to take action, suggesting the end result was the results of intentional coverage selections.

“What they need you to imagine is that Afghanistan is sophisticated. As a result of when you complicate it, it’s a tactic in info warfare referred to as ‘ambiguity rising,’” Logan, host of “Lara Logan Has No Agenda” on Fox Nation, the community’s streaming service, informed Fox Information host Tucker Carlson.

Logan mentioned that whoever is “pulling the strings” in authorities intends for crises just like the one in Afghanistan and alongside the U.S.-Mexico border to accentuate regardless that officers declare there isn’t something they will do.

“So now we’re all speaking in regards to the corruption and the ‘this’ and the ‘that’ and that there’s all these advanced components — however at its coronary heart, each single factor on the planet, in your private life, professionally, on the worldwide stage, at its coronary heart, it’s quite simple,” she continued.

“It at all times comes down to 1 factor, one or two issues. And on this case, in Afghanistan, this comes right down to the truth that america needs this consequence,” she added.

“Whoever is in energy proper now, whoever is de facto pulling the strings – and I don’t know that – they may do something they wish to change this. And so they’re not.”

Logan went on to inform Carlson that the U.S. has at all times prioritized next-door Pakistan because the regional energy as a result of it has nuclear weapons. She additionally mentioned that U.S. officers all through the warfare in Afghanistan have been conscious that the Taliban’s base of operations was there and that it will not exist as a viable group with out Pakistan’s help, a lot of which additionally comes from the U.S. within the type of funding for the Islamabad’s navy and intelligence companies.

With that in thoughts, Logan mentioned if the U.S. wished to impact a greater consequence in Afghanistan, Washington has a number of choices to make use of however has chosen not to take action, together with coping with the present disaster scenario in Kabul.

Once more, she mentioned, the main focus is on Pakistan.

“For instance, you can cease the cash. You would cease the remittances of Pakistanis residing in america. You would placed on sanctions. You would have visas [withdrawn], you recognize,” she mentioned.

“Each time you attempt to deal with this subject, the instant response for 20 years of this warfare has been, you’re advocating for warfare in Pakistan. No, you’re not,” Logan added.

“What they know is there are a lot of issues america may do proper now to vary what has occurred and is going on in Afghanistan. And so they’re not doing it.”

Logan additionally mentioned that the identical insurance policies have been pursued for many years.

“After we hear in regards to the forms that’s on Capitol Hill, that are the bureaucrats who survive from administration to administration, this has been their coverage,” she mentioned of the thought they’ve been propping up Pakistan.

“They’ve pushed via the Bush administration, via Clinton, via Obama, via Trump, and now to Biden that as a result of Pakistan is a nuclear nation, they’re the one nation in that area that truly issues. The truth is, Joe Biden informed Afghan’s president — when it was Hamid Karzai nonetheless in energy– precisely that,” she mentioned.

Logan additionally pushed again on claims that the U.S. intelligence neighborhood is unable to maintain observe of what’s happening within the area.

“The staggering half to me is that whenever you hear this debate, ‘The intelligence businesses didn’t see this.’ Severely?” she mentioned.

“The NSA is named the crown jewel of intelligence assortment on the planet. There isn’t a digital signature in existence that they don’t accumulate and retailer and analyze and have algorithms and every little thing else to type via,” she famous.

“The concept they missed this. You already know what it takes to do an invasion like this? It’s a must to stage forces. It’s a must to plan. It’s a must to have conferences. It’s a must to have, you recognize, weapons which are shifting in,” Logan mentioned.

“They don’t let you know the nationwide safety risk posed by letting the cartels come throughout the southern border, do they? They solely have a dialog about one factor, the humanitarian facet. They by no means deal with that.”

She concluded: “The USA authorities may change this even at this time. And so they don’t do it. They don’t use the leverage they’ve with Pakistan. They’ll provide you with 5,000 causes, nevertheless it doesn’t matter.”

Syndicated with permission from USA Options Information.