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

[Mark Thibodeau]

"Cummin' agin to save the fuckin' DAY, yeah!"

Jerky

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>  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.
> >
> > The message was a reply to the one the Americans got on 11 September.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > here's one
> >
> > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/james-meek/worse-than-a-defeat
> >
> > adam curtis' next film Bitter Lake will focus on Afghanistan
> >
> > doubt we'll ever get a full reckoning for a while in the US
> >
> > that obama can seriously claim we are ending our presence there
> responsibly beggars belief.
> >
> > rich
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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