Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal influential promoters of western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They're literally using that phrase, "ending the forever wars", and then saying it's a bad thing.
We already know that endless wars are just grifts, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't, right now, criticizing the hell out of Biden for butchering of the withdrawal.
Two things. First, we'll know the American people and dissenting pundits are learning when they start treating Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey with the same disdain they show Wolfowitz, Bolton, Bush, Haass and Lister. How can you think our foreign policy is controlled by corporate profits and believe our public health bureaucracy is pure as the driven snow?
Second, I've come to the conclusion Biden was chosen for his potential as a scapegoat. Afghanistan is just one example. Top Dems knew it was unsustainable and it was best to get out now. They also knew it was likely to be messy. An old man with developing dementia was the perfect choice. There were also plenty of true believer interventionists who wanted withdrawal to be a demonstration of their theories as to why we should NOT withdraw from anywhere else. Thus, they knew the US had lost and wanted to make it painful so we would not end any other useless wars.
Almost makes you wonder if the botched withdrawal isn't on purpose to try and dramatically display how right and just these monstrous wars really are. Idiots and sociopaths, but mostly Machiavellian sociopaths. Here's a fun exercise for someone with more time and tolerance for watching these dirtbag pundits, score their logic and their actions on the dark triad
of personality traits and come up with a rubric to score each of these lying murdering bloviating windbags they force us to listen to (and politicians too) and get their names associated with their actual disorders.
Tim Pool had some interesting convo comparing this to the movie ARGO. And with all people, Bannon! Some now are suggesting we could be faced with the biggest hostage and POW crisis in our history, certainly bigger than the Iran hostage crisis or possibly Vietnam. It looks grim for many millions in Afghanistan right now.
Regardless if we could trust the Taliban, which everyone knows we cannot, as well as our own corrupt leaders who got us in this mess all these decades, it looks like the deal was we were to be out by MAY, 14 months from February 2020 deal Trump made with them. In meantime our country has been torn apart by Covid, toxic election polarization, riots, gangland wars, etc.
This would have required a exit strategy and massive mobilization of our great mammoth military. Sounded doable, albeit a bit daunting. I do hope Americans might learn from our past "nation building" techniques as the blowback is hell to pay for.
Since I *never* watch cable news, I was unaware that MSNBC was so enthusiastic about endless wars, but then it occurred to me that MSNBC is the de facto propaganda arm of the Democratic Party establishment, and it all made sense. My question is this: Does the network present any anti-war voices? My guess is that they are few and far between and that they face hostile questioning from their interlocutors. Someone please enlighten me.
These forever-war-mongers are institutionalized intellectual cowards, having sold their souls, unable to articulate, anything but their master's narrative. All the Middle-eastern wars are fought by the bought US Congress, so as captured US government at the command & control of just one recently foreign brutally colonized country in the Middle-east. The USA, Canada etc are just mindless puppet regimes. Dr. Gideon Polya as a Jewish Australian scientist, calculates the Middle-east 'genocidal' (UN definition includes 'removing-people-from-their-means-of-livelihood' plus state & settler murder') death toll at ~35 million people in 35 years. Mohandas Gandhi describes this phenomena of mindless soul, "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
Gandhi is describing physical & intellectual 'bravery' on two fronts:
1) The ability to stand in livelihood solidarity working & planning with the brothers & sisters of our 'community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Gandhi employed the term 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'indigenous' aka 'swa' = 'self' + 'deshi' = 'sufficiency') to describe the ACTS of creating, sharing & caring as a people. Such day-to-day sharing & caring is diametrically opposite to the soldier who having put him or her-self in the context & control of masters or even the master's 'nation' acts as a pawn in the oligarch theatre of destruction. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
2) The ability to DIALOGUE options in support of our common livelihood & to explore & resolve issues as the arise creatively. Gandhi employed the term 'Satyagraha' (H. 'Truth-search'), which following ancient India's indigenous 'Council Process', re-became the model for 1000s of popular Both-sided, equal-time, recorded & published dialogues. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
As Indians worked together in Mutual-aid solidarity & spoke & planned livelihood together, only then did they achieve a degree of self-sufficiency, which cause the British Empire's (5-eyes = Britain, USA, Canada, Australia & New-Zealand) extracting & exploiting authoritarian cowardly 'exogenous' (L 'other-generated') oligarchs & companies to go bankrupt in the 100s. When India altered just about 5% of Britain's foreign import & export market with India, these inefficient vulnerable hierarchal companies could no longer maintain their facade. The empire was forced to recognize India's 'Swaraj' (H. 'Self-rule') in 1947.
Gi-Joe, cowboys, soldiers, sailers, pilots, drone-guidance & Military-Industrial-Complex company pawns, bought-politicians & their masters are all just one big coward's club. As we 'indigenize' / organize our 'economy', then they will abandon their masters & re-join loving humanity. 'Do-we-know-who-we-are-?' https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
We already know that endless wars are just grifts, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't, right now, criticizing the hell out of Biden for butchering of the withdrawal.
Our current problem is simple: war visits the wrong people.
Two things. First, we'll know the American people and dissenting pundits are learning when they start treating Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey with the same disdain they show Wolfowitz, Bolton, Bush, Haass and Lister. How can you think our foreign policy is controlled by corporate profits and believe our public health bureaucracy is pure as the driven snow?
Second, I've come to the conclusion Biden was chosen for his potential as a scapegoat. Afghanistan is just one example. Top Dems knew it was unsustainable and it was best to get out now. They also knew it was likely to be messy. An old man with developing dementia was the perfect choice. There were also plenty of true believer interventionists who wanted withdrawal to be a demonstration of their theories as to why we should NOT withdraw from anywhere else. Thus, they knew the US had lost and wanted to make it painful so we would not end any other useless wars.
Almost makes you wonder if the botched withdrawal isn't on purpose to try and dramatically display how right and just these monstrous wars really are. Idiots and sociopaths, but mostly Machiavellian sociopaths. Here's a fun exercise for someone with more time and tolerance for watching these dirtbag pundits, score their logic and their actions on the dark triad
of personality traits and come up with a rubric to score each of these lying murdering bloviating windbags they force us to listen to (and politicians too) and get their names associated with their actual disorders.
Tim Pool had some interesting convo comparing this to the movie ARGO. And with all people, Bannon! Some now are suggesting we could be faced with the biggest hostage and POW crisis in our history, certainly bigger than the Iran hostage crisis or possibly Vietnam. It looks grim for many millions in Afghanistan right now.
Regardless if we could trust the Taliban, which everyone knows we cannot, as well as our own corrupt leaders who got us in this mess all these decades, it looks like the deal was we were to be out by MAY, 14 months from February 2020 deal Trump made with them. In meantime our country has been torn apart by Covid, toxic election polarization, riots, gangland wars, etc.
This would have required a exit strategy and massive mobilization of our great mammoth military. Sounded doable, albeit a bit daunting. I do hope Americans might learn from our past "nation building" techniques as the blowback is hell to pay for.
A BBC Feb 2020 about Trump's efforts is important timeline information. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51692546
Since I *never* watch cable news, I was unaware that MSNBC was so enthusiastic about endless wars, but then it occurred to me that MSNBC is the de facto propaganda arm of the Democratic Party establishment, and it all made sense. My question is this: Does the network present any anti-war voices? My guess is that they are few and far between and that they face hostile questioning from their interlocutors. Someone please enlighten me.
These forever-war-mongers are institutionalized intellectual cowards, having sold their souls, unable to articulate, anything but their master's narrative. All the Middle-eastern wars are fought by the bought US Congress, so as captured US government at the command & control of just one recently foreign brutally colonized country in the Middle-east. The USA, Canada etc are just mindless puppet regimes. Dr. Gideon Polya as a Jewish Australian scientist, calculates the Middle-east 'genocidal' (UN definition includes 'removing-people-from-their-means-of-livelihood' plus state & settler murder') death toll at ~35 million people in 35 years. Mohandas Gandhi describes this phenomena of mindless soul, "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
Gandhi is describing physical & intellectual 'bravery' on two fronts:
1) The ability to stand in livelihood solidarity working & planning with the brothers & sisters of our 'community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Gandhi employed the term 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'indigenous' aka 'swa' = 'self' + 'deshi' = 'sufficiency') to describe the ACTS of creating, sharing & caring as a people. Such day-to-day sharing & caring is diametrically opposite to the soldier who having put him or her-self in the context & control of masters or even the master's 'nation' acts as a pawn in the oligarch theatre of destruction. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
2) The ability to DIALOGUE options in support of our common livelihood & to explore & resolve issues as the arise creatively. Gandhi employed the term 'Satyagraha' (H. 'Truth-search'), which following ancient India's indigenous 'Council Process', re-became the model for 1000s of popular Both-sided, equal-time, recorded & published dialogues. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
As Indians worked together in Mutual-aid solidarity & spoke & planned livelihood together, only then did they achieve a degree of self-sufficiency, which cause the British Empire's (5-eyes = Britain, USA, Canada, Australia & New-Zealand) extracting & exploiting authoritarian cowardly 'exogenous' (L 'other-generated') oligarchs & companies to go bankrupt in the 100s. When India altered just about 5% of Britain's foreign import & export market with India, these inefficient vulnerable hierarchal companies could no longer maintain their facade. The empire was forced to recognize India's 'Swaraj' (H. 'Self-rule') in 1947.
Gi-Joe, cowboys, soldiers, sailers, pilots, drone-guidance & Military-Industrial-Complex company pawns, bought-politicians & their masters are all just one big coward's club. As we 'indigenize' / organize our 'economy', then they will abandon their masters & re-join loving humanity. 'Do-we-know-who-we-are-?' https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are