Islamic State is back in Afghanistan and ready to attack us — says US propaganda machine

© 2021 Peter Free

 

27 October 2021

 

 

The lying vermin . . .

 

. . . who constitute the leadership of the American Security and Police State — are back at it.

 

 

The US left Afghanistan . . .

 

. . . unable to defeat the Taliban — or even control most of that country — and suddenly now the Islamic State is miraculously back there and in increasingly dangerous across-the-seas fashion:

 

 

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability to attack the United States in as little as six months, and has the intention to do so, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday.

 

The remarks by Colin Kahl, under secretary of defense for policy, are the latest reminder that Afghanistan could still pose serious national security concerns for the United States even after it ended its two-decade-old war in defeat in August.

 

The Taliban, which won the war, are enemies of Islamic State and have seen its attempts to impose law and order after the U.S. pullout thwarted by suicide bombings and other attacks claimed by Islamic State.

 

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kahl said it was still unclear whether the Taliban has the ability to fight Islamic State effectively following the U.S. withdrawal in August.

 

"It is our assessment that the Taliban and ISIS-K are mortal enemies. So the Taliban is highly motivated to go after ISIS-K. Their ability to do so, I think, is to be determined," Kahl said, using an acronym for Islamic State in Afghanistan.

 

© 2021 Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Jonathan Oatis, Islamic State in Afghanistan could be able to attack U.S. in 6 months-Pentagon official, Reuters (26 October 2021)

 

 

From this, we intuit that the United States . . .

 

. . . even while repeatedly losing ground to the Taliban, while we were in-country — somehow and nevertheless did control the Islamic State.

 

Then, when American troops left Afghanistan, the Taliban simultaneously — and presumably magically and certainly counterintuitively — lost most of its former ability to keep the Islamic State at bay.

 

We are now to presume — from Secretary Colin Kahl's words — that having American forces in an Islamic country somehow benefits Islamic insurgents' shared ability to police themselves against more vicious terrorists, like those which comprise the Islamic State.

 

That's a curiously derived conclusion. Ordinarily, one would think that having US troops in a Muslim nation would unite most of its inhabitants against us.

 

And today — implies Secretary Kahl — we stalwart Americans may need to go back to Afghanistan (in one fashion or another) to re-engage and re-control the Islamic State.

 

That mission to be accomplished simultaneously, while we (based on 20 years of history) continue to lose to the Taliban.

 

This narrowed new American task is to be accomplished, we can infer, by using undescribed and newly miraculous means — that we never managed to unleash against our former Taliban foes.

 

 

If you think that little (to none) of this makes . . .

 

. . . tactical and strategic sense, you are correct.

 

 

The moral? — One need only to be able to think with clarity . . .

 

. . . to recognize that the American Government is full of conniving militarists.

 

Installing fear among the American Rabble — and sucking up the Congressional budget that goes with such a never-ending task — are their only goals.

 

US leadership is like a broken record. Stuck on decades-old music that sucked (think Vietnam War), even when it was new.

 

The point, for American leaders and Fat Cats, is not about geopolitical winning.

 

It is about continually losing, while (thereby) perpetually filling the Military Industrial Complex's lucre and personal self-advancement vaults.

 

'Vermin' is an appropriate description for these people.