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

[David Morris]

Sorry, but this entire post is crap.

We grabbed the Afghanistan tar-baby after 9-11 for obvious reasons. As
usual, we botched everything, but at least Afghanistan was already broken
before we got there.  The we did Iraq...

On Thursday, January 1, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> location*because the war has gone so badly that even the capital city
>>> is no longer safe from the Taliban.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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