https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com...Q.mbu-g8YxzQ672Mwj-KZOBnS8tSzsYx4EMbDaAgt22uY When ‘Never Again’ Becomes ‘Again and Again’ The U.S. has a responsibility to protect Afghans from the mass atrocities of the Taliban.
It took us twenty years to learn what we already should have known (and probably did know); there is NO “conquering Afghanistan. History has shown for centuries that any attempt is a stalemate at best, an ass whupping at worst. Afghanistan has no real strategic value and our initial involvement was symbolic. We were reacting to 9/11. The only real value Afghanistan has is its mineral resources. And between the topography and the millenniums old tribal politics, rivalries and factions, there is no quick, easy or economically feasible way for ANYONE to extract them. It’s like we (and the Russians before us) were trying to plant our flag as a way of staking future claims (as if the realities of Afghanistan were EVER going to change). Talk about arrogance and hubris. Let the Taliban have Afghanistan. If twenty years of American blood and money hasn’t convinced the Afghani population that “democracy” is better than Islamic extremism, then it’s time to pull up stakes and concentrate on the more serious issues we face at home. The Afghanis will just have to live with the fruits of their disinterest/inaction. It’s not like the Russians or Chinese (or anyone else) are going to march in and take over. And if they do, they deserve what they get. Leave it to the political pearl clutchers to overreact to the inevitable. The real irony is that Trump is the one who set this plan in motion and now he’s blaming Biden. When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice In Wonderland, he had no idea he was writing a fable about twenty first century America……..
When the Russians bail on trying to occupy your country you know it's a lost cause....rip off the band aid..it's not our damned country...
In the 1970s Kabul was called the Paris if West Asia. Cafes, theaters, bookstores, young women with uncovered heads and miniskirts going to work and school. In 1978 president was assassinated in Soviet backed coup. A year later Soviet Union invaded to back government and country has been at war since. In a Cold War knee jerk reaction US backed Mujahideen fighting government, and Taliban was born. Now women and girls are being forced into sexual slavery by encroaching Taliban, which media sanitizes into "forced marriage".
ISIS schmisis. I ain't afraid of no ghosts. Speaking of which, we'll be @ ISIS in Asheville late October. Gonna take in an Erin McKeown concert. https://isisasheville.com/event/erin-mckeown-with-jenn-knapp-10-29-2021/
At least he says his views clearly; not like the former guy who screwed up this departure by not inviting the Afghan Government for US talks with the Taliban. Resentment and lost confidence in our Political arena are clearly evident as these guys used our country as a tool and now cannot organize themselves without big brother. Unfortunately, this is another escape with lives wasted and money pissed down the drain from this occupied country. The pull out is just like Vietnam but as Biden thought "more was expected of them." They failed, we gave up. If they can't handle the Taliban then they have no guts for their own future. In retrospect, the Republican Presidents; the Bush's threw our country into this chaos 20 years ago .
