Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. "One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity, said Tuesday that the U.S. military now assesses a collapse could occur within 90 days. Others said it could happen within a month,"
I ask myself this simple question whenever I watch a war film with US forces in the Middle East, Afghanistan or Iraq; what the bleeding fuck are we doing there? i do like watching war movies when we have actual bad guys like Nazis. But what did Afghanistan ever do to the US? Nothing? 'Nuff said. I'll respond in Medium tomorrow when I have more time to think. Peace, All
Isn't American Imperialism and wars for Israel fun? How many are dead and injured? How many people have been uprooted and homeless? All so the industrial-military complex can still make a profit and Israel can have a wet dream about its greater Israel project!
Let me exploit this Afghanistan debacle to make my own point- Afghanistan and Vietnam are perfect examples which debunk the whole “your ar 15s will never stand against the military tanks”.
Neither the Soviets nor the largest military spending of the USA has been able to win the Vietnam nor the 20 year Afghanistan shit show. Small on the ground gorillas can beat massive military power when shit hits the fan.
Afghanistan is about the pipeline and lithium. It is the Bush Doctrine prerogative returning with a mighty force. Can you hear Kissinger chattering in the background?
Funny how the media and US Generals go on tv and say "imposing a Federal structure on the tribal clan-loyal patchwork of Afghanistan is foolish", but yet.....THE TALIBAN are taking over EVERYWHERE! Funny! How come they can be de-facto universal in all provinces, but the US "coalition " is no where.
The Afghan papers which were published by nytimes couple years ago showed that none other than General Flynn had been speaking out about how no one knew what the fuck they were doing in Afghanistan over a decade ago. Maybe that’s why the deep state railroaded Flynn.
Flashback! RAWA told Bush administration that they knew where Osama was in Pakistan and could deliver him. The women's underground railroad was then destroyed and many women's lives in the process. Bush never did find Osama.
Remember that the Iraqi Communist Party was for US intervention in Iraq, a fact which the entire US left ignored. The US may be a particularly atrocious imperialist regime, but the Taliban are about as close to legit fascism as you can get in the world today. An emancipatory leftist position would expose both as two sides of the same coin, the coin being the modern dilemma of freedom. Only a strong internationalist socialist movement could stand up to both. Taking easy potshots at either the US government or the Taliban, though, is not a first step to building such a movement.
I ask myself this simple question whenever I watch a war film with US forces in the Middle East, Afghanistan or Iraq; what the bleeding fuck are we doing there? i do like watching war movies when we have actual bad guys like Nazis. But what did Afghanistan ever do to the US? Nothing? 'Nuff said. I'll respond in Medium tomorrow when I have more time to think. Peace, All
Another great article Caitlin but for some reason you misspelled Afghanistan: Vietnam. There, fixed.
Isn't American Imperialism and wars for Israel fun? How many are dead and injured? How many people have been uprooted and homeless? All so the industrial-military complex can still make a profit and Israel can have a wet dream about its greater Israel project!
Let me exploit this Afghanistan debacle to make my own point- Afghanistan and Vietnam are perfect examples which debunk the whole “your ar 15s will never stand against the military tanks”.
Neither the Soviets nor the largest military spending of the USA has been able to win the Vietnam nor the 20 year Afghanistan shit show. Small on the ground gorillas can beat massive military power when shit hits the fan.
Afghanistan is about the pipeline and lithium. It is the Bush Doctrine prerogative returning with a mighty force. Can you hear Kissinger chattering in the background?
The GrayZone published this in April
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/biden-afghanistan-war-privatizing-contractors/
Funny how the media and US Generals go on tv and say "imposing a Federal structure on the tribal clan-loyal patchwork of Afghanistan is foolish", but yet.....THE TALIBAN are taking over EVERYWHERE! Funny! How come they can be de-facto universal in all provinces, but the US "coalition " is no where.
The Afghan papers which were published by nytimes couple years ago showed that none other than General Flynn had been speaking out about how no one knew what the fuck they were doing in Afghanistan over a decade ago. Maybe that’s why the deep state railroaded Flynn.
Flashback! RAWA told Bush administration that they knew where Osama was in Pakistan and could deliver him. The women's underground railroad was then destroyed and many women's lives in the process. Bush never did find Osama.
Remember that the Iraqi Communist Party was for US intervention in Iraq, a fact which the entire US left ignored. The US may be a particularly atrocious imperialist regime, but the Taliban are about as close to legit fascism as you can get in the world today. An emancipatory leftist position would expose both as two sides of the same coin, the coin being the modern dilemma of freedom. Only a strong internationalist socialist movement could stand up to both. Taking easy potshots at either the US government or the Taliban, though, is not a first step to building such a movement.