Afghanistan — the US is still lying — the War Machine oozes on

15 April 2021

Today

I'll begin with a cynical perspective based on too many decades of personal and professional experience.

I close with a possibly obscure spiritual reference.

Eastern Hemisphere philosophy folk will understand it. Evolved Christians, also. And some Sufis. For sure, a rabbi or two, out for Wisdom's daily stroll. And certainly, big-time, Advaita Vedantists.

Nobody is barred.

When American Government says something, it is brain-wash

Consider the following about the Biden Administration's pretended intent to withdraw from Afghanistan.

Pay attention to the following report's closing words:

On Wednesday, Biden detailed his decision to end the two-decade war in remarks in the White House's Treaty Room, arguing that the "ideal conditions" for withdrawal will never come.

The president said the U.S. will begin removing troops on May 1, in advance of the September deadline, which also marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the conflict.

Nearly 2,500 U.S. troops are stationed in the country, along with up to 7,000 NATO and partner country troops and a further 13,000 contractors. All are expected to leave ahead of the deadline.

Ambassador William Burns, Biden's CIA director, said the move carries the "significant risk" of a resurgence by al Qaeda or ISIS once the U.S. leaves.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say whether U.S. special operations troops would remain in Afghanistan following President Joe Biden's promise of a full military withdrawal by Sept. 11.

"I'm obviously not going to get into operational specifics from the podium," Psaki told reporters on Wednesday, when asked whether the drawdown of troops would include special operations troops or special forces. "I will say that we may, we will have what is needed to secure a diplomatic presence, and those assessments will be made over the coming months and obviously led by the Defense Department and State Department."

In short, we will continue to connive and make war. Exactly as usual.

How the Pretend Withdrawal is really going to work

President Biden (or his Puppet Masters) will make a show of moving a few troops around. Most probably just to some other place that the United States is fomenting an armed presence.

Left behind in Afghanistan will be a Very Secret number of special operations forces, intelligence gatherers, CIA death and coup-instigators, civilian murder contractors — and so on.

Those Deep State-inserted 'guys and gals' — somewhere down Time's Line — will alert us to the continued and building presence of Bad People and Bad Things in Afghanistan.

And naturally, back 'The Troops' will go.

Their return to that Land of Butt-Kicked Empires reoccurring, so as to assist the Military Industrial Complex — and its Lapdog Pentagon — in continuing to gobble huge profits.

Humorously, in metaphorical illustration . . .

. . . of our ingrained American Vacuity, we have the following exquisite example:

In March, General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., an Alabama-born marine who commands U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, took a whirlwind tour of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Lebanon—America’s most volatile theatre of operations.

In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as the operational headquarters for the final push to erase the caliphate, in 2019.

These days, the only military action there is [is] from U.S. forces firing a 155-millimetre howitzer twice a week into the surrounding desert, at no specific target, ‘just to say we’re here,’ one officer told me.”

The moral? — When American Government speaks . . .

. . . it is (always) manipulating us for Grand Plutocracy's profit.

We will, therefore, keep firing howitzers into Vacuity's Existential Desert.

Maybe we'll hit some guy running across it.

If he is 'military age' and 'brown' — he's probably a terrorist.

So for sure:

We'll need more ammo and maybe a bunch'a missiles.

A bomber or two.

Maybe nukes and a drone?

Space Force would do it.

Thank God we invented that outfit.

Never did like the sound of sand and emptiness.

PeteFree.com

Afghanistan — the US is still lying — the War Machine oozes on