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

[alice malice]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/russians_invade_afghanistan_again_chinese_fight_iraq_war_again_20141127

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:53 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/
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> On Thursday, January 1, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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
>>>> location*because the war has gone so badly that even the capital city
>>>> is no longer safe from the Taliban.
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