Bombing and missiling Afghanistan — the petty cowardice of the American War Machine

© 2021 Peter Free

 

13 August 2021

 

 

Today's theme

 

For Americans, even strategically idiotic war is profitable and has to be never-ending.

 

Example?

 

Afghanistan and the feigned US withdrawal.

 

Those circumstances put common sense and Military Industrial Complex profit-seeking at odds.

 

 

For instance, have you asked yourself why . . .

 

. . . every day (in the American Homeland) we are greeted with hysteria-prone news of the Taliban's infectious spread?

 

The American Deep State has girded up its wheels-within-wheels to keep us informed about the Taliban's rapid (post US -withdrawal) takeover of Afghanistan.

 

Good people (and especially women), we are told, are being killed by bad ones.

 

 

In response . . .

 

. . . and to ensure that America's mantle of celestial righteous remains in place, US military leadership keeps stately B-52s — and happy-making drones — dropping bombs (or slinging missiles) on swaths of Afghani folk.

 

Most of whom neither weapons platform can see or properly identify. Assuredly, we must infer, everyone blasted to bits is one of the Bad People.

 

US bombs and missiles are, after all, taught to be discriminating. That's why they cost so much.

 

Think of us as (a not-retreating) Jesus with wings.

 

 

Meanwhile

 

We're having to return 3,000 troops to the country to remove American embassy personnel.

 

I guess those diplomatic folks (and who knows who else) were left out of the previous withdrawal plan.

 

Probably overlooked on purpose because it is hard to envision a withdrawal plan that does not evacuate its most vulnerable targets. Recall the Vietnam War's helicopters-on-buildings evacuation effort.

 

Plus, what could be a better excuse for going back in a magnificently flexing posture? We should get goosebumps just imagining the shock and awe.

 

Powah.

 

 

Less publicly . . .

 

. . . (as I asserted when all this duplicitous withdrawal nonsense began) you can bet that hordes of 'private' contractors and 'intelligence' operatives — as well as assorted Dark Ops Minions — are still scurrying around Afghanistan, holding up our American end of Imperialism's profits-extraction bargain.

 

Being too explicit about the tacit agreement — especially about fueling Afghanistan's non-Taliban-sponsored corruption — American leadership knows, is dangerous.

 

Prickly — because the public might begin to recognize what a bunch of psychotically sociopathic creeps run these affairs, as well as the United States itself.

 

 

If all of this were not so morally outrageous . . .

 

. . . we might be able to ignore the two trillion dollars that this strategically dumbass war is destined to cost us.

 

We're paying out the wazoo to act in a serial murdering and geopolitically vacuous fashion. While simultaneously, with absolutely steely determination, ignoring the many human problems that we would have been able to ameliorate at home with the same money.

 

A better example of misplaced priorities in governance and national character would be hard to find.

 

 

The moral? — the US war in Afghanistan, or its example, is going to drag on and on

 

That desolately beautiful place, and its tribally hostile human situation, comprise too appealing a capitalist's profit-seeking pit of entanglement.

 

Even if we do successfully feign getting out of there, the Afghanistan example will continue to live on as an asserted — 'don't let the same thing happen here' — excuse to Intervene Forever somewhere else.

 

The United States' core business is bloating its Fat Cats with blood-sucked lucre.