A summary of the Conservative Review article “Aimless fighting in Afghanistan — while we bring Afghanistan to our shores”

 by Edward Ulrich, September 17, 2022


This article is a summary of an August 15, 2018 article in the Conservative Review by Daniel Horowitz which shows that Donald Trump has been continuing to import many thousands of Muslims into the U.S. from hostile areas during his administration.




— From the article:





“One year later, the Afghanistan surge is a failure”

— Engaging in armed conflict in Afghanistan only yields death and destruction, where the West has been bailing out the Taliban from its fight with ISIS, however a year ago Trump had nonetheless agreed to another half-hearted troop surge without any clear stated objective.  The Afghan government and military are more corrupt than ever, yet the U.S. is continuing to spend billions of dollars on the aimless conflict.  Additionally, hundreds of thousands of U.S. weapons meant to bolster “allies” have fallen into the hands of Islamists.

— “Worse, we continue to lose lives ‘patrolling’ in untenable areas, aka engaging in social work in a combat zone - the worst possible position for a military unit.”  Recently Sgt. 1st Class Reymund R. Transfiguracion was killed in an IED attack, and Cpl. Joseph Maciel was killed by the Afghan soldiers he was training, while many of such are being imported into the U.S. on special immigrant visas.

— The Taliban is in the process of overrunning the entire Ghanzi province southwest of Kabul, with the government deceptively moving its district headquarters in an attempt to suggest that the Afghan government is still in control of several Ghanzi districts, but in reality the Taliban which much of the population identifies with operates in just about every province.



“Bringing the chaos and death home”

— Despite the fact that militants in Afghanistan would normally not be able to hurt the U.S. since they don’t have the global reach that groups such as Hezbollah does, the U.S. is continually importing Afghans at a record pace.  In the first quarter of 2018, it brought in 5,718, with 2018’s total being projected to dwarf the recent trend of 12,000 per year, and the U.S. has imported 86,000 Afghans since 9/11.

— In 2017’s defense authorization bill, Congress authorized another 3,500 special immigrant visas granting refugee status to Afghan officials, despite a SIGAR report which shows that half of all foreign personnel who have gone AWOL after being brought into the U.S. for training were Afghans, with most of them still at large and unaccounted for.

— During the first year of the Trump presidency, he had given out green cards to nationals from 47 Islamic countries, with the total number being as many as 167,000, with the amount for 2018 appearing to be at the same rate based on the first quarter.  The number is only slightly less than what Obama did in his record year of 2016.  2.2 million migrants from those countries have been admitted since 2001, and 35 of those countries have been identified by DHS as “[showing] a tendency to promote, produce or protect terrorist organizations.”

— In addition, the U.S. brings in over 150,000 foreign students per year from those same countries.

— The influx of migrants from countries on Trump’s “travel ban” list has not slowed down overall.  Trump is not coming close to a complete shutoff from countries like Syria, Iran, Sudan, and Somalia.  Based on first quarter data in 2018, the U.S. is on pace to grant over 4,000 green cards to Yemeni nationals.  2,000 Somalis were given green cards in the first quarter, with many being adjustments of status but also including new arrivals, with the same type of trend holding true for those from Syria.  The U.S. is on pace to bring in 13,000 to 14,000 Iranians in 2018, which is roughly in line with the national average.  Immigration from Sudan is continuing at record highs.

— 2,429 people from the non-Islamic country of Venezuela which was also on Trump’s “travel ban” list were given green cards during the first three months of 2018.  Venezuela has a large Arab population, close ties to Iran, and a leadership that is hooked into terror financing.

— Immigration has increased from other Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan, with the latter two being the result of a consolidation of the visa lottery and chain migration.

— The pace of non-immigrant visas from the supposed travel ban countries hasn’t even been slowed, with only 1,338 visa applicants being denied in 2017, and with 90% of those being only because they didn’t quality.






“The lesson from Europe”

— From the article:



— As the U.S. imports the Middle East, it also allows the network of Muslim Brotherhood organizations and mosques to operate their subversive agenda which creates terror at home that the U.S. is supposedly fighting in the Middle East.  An example is the terrorist training camp that was found in New Mexico in 2018 which was connected to prominent Imams and American Mosques.  Other examples include Somalians potentially funding terror through child care welfare fraud, and Yemenis selling poisonous “K-2” synthetic Marijuana to kids through their mini-marts while sending million of dollars back to their country to finance terror operations.

— If the U.S. would redirect even only a fraction of its nation-building efforts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Africa into counterterrorism on its own soil along with busting up the terror networks and drug trafficking that support terrorism, it would actually address the source of the problem.  And if the U.S. ceased its Islamic immigration agendas it would save the country from self-destructing, it wouldn’t cost anything, and in fact the country would save a lot of money considering the high level of welfare that is used by the migrants.


“Our wide-open back door”

— Another 20 Bangladeshis were caught crossing the Laredo border during the week that the article was written, with many of them having false identities and speaking Farsi— bringing the total number of “special interest aliens (SIAs)” caught in that sector so far in 2018 to 520.

— There is a vast network of Iran and Hezbollah working with the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua to facilitate travel for Middle Easterners to get them to the areas that are controlled by the Mexican cartels, such as the Zetas.  Once they are in Mexico, the smugglers charge up to $30,000 to get these SIAs across the border.

— For every 500 SIAs caught crossing the border, an unimaginable amount are making it through due to the smugglers making use of the border surges to distract agents.

— The U.S.’s fixation with the Taliban halfway around the world is completely backward compared to the threat of Hezbollah coming into the country through cross-border migration.

— From the article:  “It’s time we finally chart a conservative path on counterterrorism, border security, and sane immigration priorities.  It will completely remake our foreign policy, save us a ton of money, preserve lives, preserve our civilization, and conserve our hard power for the long-term menaces that can attack us regardless of whether we continue to commit immigration suicide or not.”