This is the best article I’ve read so far on Afghanistan.
People fighting for their homeland have, among other advantages, a moral advantage against an occupying power. They’re fighting for what’s theirs, not to steal and dominate what isn’t. It’s a lesson America’s revolutionary ancestors knew in their bones, but one most Americans have ignored, at staggering costs in blood and treasure, through America’s string of failed invasions and occupations since World War II. It’s also a lesson that should, but won’t, make those who presume to rule us quake. While the government is part of America, it is no longer of America (our rulers now pride themselves on their separateness), just as our puppet governments in the lands we’ve occupied have been part of those countries, but not of them. In other words, the government is an occupying power in our land, and is destined to meet the fate of so many occupying powers.
From Eric Zuesse at strategic-culture.org:
Between America’s founding and the present time, America has switched from doing war against military occupiers, to doing war as military occupiers, Eric Zuesse writes.
The prominent philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated the question well at RT, on August 17th:
The Taliban’s 80,000 troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces, better equipped and trained, mostly melted and surrendered with no will to fight. Why did it happen?
The Western media tell us there can be several explanations for that. …
However, all these explanations seem to avoid a basic fact that is traumatic for the liberal Western view. That is the Taliban’s disregard for survival and the readiness of its fighters to assume “martyrdom,” to die not just in a battle but even in suicidal acts.
Some say the fall to the Taliban was planned a while ago.
We didn’t “lose” to the Taliban….just like we didn’t “lose” in Vietnam. What we did was WORSE. We FORFEITED. We just picked up and left, walked away. Losing would indicate our foe was at least our equal if not superior. But just quitting and walking away, especially when we could literally kill our opponents at a rate of 20 to 1 or even 100 to 1 is just cowardly shameful treachery. And we can blame it all on career criminals in office.
We invaded Afghanistan for 20 years now. It should be the U.S. to take responsibility of what’s happening out there now. We are occupiers. I’m not in the military but if I were and I lost brothers in this Afghan war, I would keep asking, did they die in vain….
Answer: Yes
“And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that, whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes (because their war was just), today’s Americans are waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust — imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic defenses against an aggressor). Between America’s founding and the present time, America has switched from doing war against military occupiers, to doing war as military occupiers.”
SPOT ON!!!
Yet these wars disgust probably 98% of our population, once they realize the propaganda news is full of crap 99.9% of time at least.
When will media be held accountable!!!???WHEN?
Why did WE let them all get so powerful? Where is the people willing to help do something? I have ideas that are LEGAL too..
Btw, do you want anymore verification KNOWING how many people agree with all of us here? PLEASE, PLEASE go watch on youtube.. “T.Macdonald Brainwashed video reactions” by the black and Spanish people too, not just “whitey”. Look at the comments!! I’d say by those responses we’re sitting with millions ready to put life on line, but we can still do this without that possibly too. That is what I’d like to see… Yet i agree with the guys here, “probably more bloody than we’d all like” if that was the scenario.
Those brainwashed video comments and the anger they seem to feel, that’s America! TIME TO GET HER BACK 🇺🇲💪=🌎💪