The Afghanistan blame-game is utterly pathetic

1. 68

   Justin Earickposted 3 years ago

   There is an all-out media assault, hand-wringing about the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan. It's embarrassing for the elites, that US diplomats had to be air-lifted away. So there's a pathetic blame-game under way, in response to the media-created outrage, and the entire thing is disgusting. The Taliban are just the local forces, who astoundingly defeated the US military superpower, as well as the military of a US-puppet government, which facilitated the bombing of their own people, and had years & years of training. The US invaded Afghanistan, supposedly to get Bin Laden for 9/11. The Taliban offered to capture & provide Bin Laden, if the US provided evidence he planned it with al-Qaeda (who the Taliban sometimes trained with). We invaded instead, and refused numerous offers by the Taliban to surrender. Because the Taliban issued a fatwa against opium production, and were blocking the UNOCAL oil pipeline. If we allowed them to surrender to the US & put down their arms & bleed back into the population, if we had declared victory & left victorious, then they'd just immediately re-emerge & quickly defeat the US-puppet government forces, as we've seen. So we tried to train the puppet government's military (who were reportedly paid less than Taliban fighters), but Taliban members would join, then turn their guns on US forces, and it was an utter failure. So US troops were left surrounded, and would be sent out on patrols as bait for ineffective airstrikes. General after general was instructed to concoct metrics by which we were making progress, to sell the war to the public. Which also didn't work. The people want the wars to end. Bipartisan agreement. But corporate media & both party establishments (neocons & neoliberals) are funded by the military industrial complex via ad buys & campaign contributions, and are thus paid to keep the war machine humming. So the pathetic media is on an all-out assault, hand-wringing about the "fall" of Afghanistan to the Taliban. The pathetic neocons are hand-wringing about the creation of a terrorist safe-haven, and inevitable yet completely unprovoked attacks on US soil. The pathetic neoliberals are hand-wringing about religious extremism, dressing in feminism their particular brand of imperialism & western chauvinism. And the Taliban have announced that they will educate girls & will not abide terrorist plots on the US under their rule - for whatever that's worth

   replyreport