NP - One sentence that shows how badly America failed in Afghanistan

[Joseph Tracy]

 This is exactly what makes us and our pure capitalism and violence so much better than Putin, you fucking whiners. We are kings over all the monkeys. We have The monkey money and the monkey bombs. The heroin and gas are cheap so shoot up and shut up.  America, fuck yea!  
  


On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:28 AM, alice malice wrote:

> Failed at what? The claim that the US  failed assumes that the US's stated goal there, or in Egypt, Syria, Libya...is to restore peace, to defend allies and friends of freedom or whatever...or offer an opportunity for democracy, build a nation state etc... is to be taken at face value. But these kinds of goals are not achievable and everyone knows it. Moreover, the US does not want peace or democracy in these areas of the world.So the US succeeded in its mission. Its mission was to send a message: death, blood, bodies, destruction, murder, mass murder, civil conflict and chaos. The US has everyone at each other's throats. 
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> The message was a reply to the one the Americans got on 11 September. 
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> The world got the message. America will murder and incite murder on a grand scale. It will drone anyone anywhere. It will torture. It will spend a trillion dollars and lay waste vast regions of the globe. That was America's goal. It is the Empire and it will act as one.  In this, organized murder, as in all else, it reigns supreme. 
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> How foolish to call attention to flag ceremony. There is no danger there. It's propaganda. The Empire has reached a point of diminishing Returns in Afghanistan. 
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:08 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> there's been a few longish pieces on scoring Britain's war in Afghanistan in the UK press, a stunning renouncement of folly and stupidity
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> here's one
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> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/james-meek/worse-than-a-defeat
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> adam curtis' next film Bitter Lake will focus on Afghanistan
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> doubt we'll ever get a full reckoning for a while in the US
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> that obama can seriously claim we are ending our presence there responsibly beggars belief. 
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> rich
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:19 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/7464111/afghanistan-war-failure
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> The ceremony in Kabul honoring 13 years of mostly-American and British troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan had to be held in a secret locationbecause the war has gone so badly that even the capital city is no longer safe from the Taliban.
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