The Farce of America's Noble Intentions

As usual the New York Slime is bullshitting its readers...

The "fall" of Afghanistan to the Taliban, saith the Slime is "unutterably tragic."  Well now... if it is "unutterable" the editorial might as well have ended there. 

But uttering on the Slime tell us that this denouement is tragic "because the American dream of being the 'indispensable nation' in shaping the world where the values of civil rights, women's empowerment and religious tolerance rule proved to be just that: a dream."

Oh sing sorrow of sorrows...America, the Noble and Tragic, stalking the world for the love of women's empowerment. If, as Clemenceau said, Wilson talked like Jesus Christ but acted like Lloyd George, the New York Slime tries to talk like Wilson but ends up sounding like an imbecile. 

The Slime then goes on to blabber about confidential reports on "Lessons Learned."  Oh puleeze.  Let us put aside the "graveyard of empires." Let us put aside even the lessons learned from Vietnam.  The Carter Administration understood very well that Afghanistan was a quagmire and for that very reason connived to induce the Russians to get sucked into an unwinnable war.  

Zbigniew Brzezinski was quite open about this. In a 1997 interview, he spoke of “drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap.” He claims: “The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.’"

Uh huh.

So then... why did we jump into the quagmire once the Soviets extricated their asses (to the tune of 50,000 killed)?  Because beginning in 1993, with Cheney's "Defense Planning Guide,"  the Neoscum in the administration evolved a policy of global "POWER PROJECTION."

The "goal" of U.S. policy was simply to stalk the world "projecting power"...not for any ulterior purpose but for its own sake to deter "potential rivals."  Got that?  Not actual rivals but "potential" ones.  This is the policy of a bully, pure and simple.  This later got distilled in the P.N.A.C's notorious paper of 9/2000 ("Rebuilding America's Defenses") which a year later got massaged into Bush's official statement on U.S. policy. 

One can guess who funded these neocon initiatives.

The Slime is such a vile work of distractions and false consciousness.  "How [the war]" it saith, "evolved into a two-decade nation-building project... is a story of mission creep and hubris but also of the enduring American faith in the values of freedom and democracy."   

No it wasn't.  It was a story of "full spectrum dominance" (aka bullying) for profit that used "smoking out" Osama bin Laden as a smokescreen for endless wars around the world.  I am not callous to anyone's individual suffering and grief but, geopoliticaly speaking,  two and half thousand military dead is a pittance in the horrible scale of warfare.  However, the three trillions wasted on "systems and hardware" that might have been spent on alleviating social distress and infrastructural decay was not a pittance.  That the nation's treasure was wasted on this escapade was not a tragedy but a disgusting crime. 

Not a single one of the vermin who authored this wastage will swing from the gallows.