Rudyard Kipling, Naulahka

You do have to ask yourself what agenda is being executed, given the absence of any apparent rational explanation, by they who kill when they are mentioned. The problem I encounter is how to make effective use of the pressure points within the lies, since those we elect won’t. And it would be a holiday gift to pin down who “they” are.

We provided the best possible ‘live fire exercise’ experience for the Mujahideen which we funded, armed and otherwise supported in their efforts to drive back the Soviet ‘invaders.’

When we actually attacked Afghanistan, we failed to enter the country with sufficient forces to insure security, capture or kill the opposition and end the cooperative ‘reign’ of the Taliban and those allied with Osama bin Laden. We compounded that idiocy by diverting critical assets to the unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq. And, ultimately rewarded our then-CENTCOM commander with a medal for rebuffing pleas from the CIA for more assets to capture or kill the fleeing forces at Tora Bora. Simultaneously, we rewarded the then-Director of Central Intelligence the same medal.

We have continued to fail in Afghanistan, by failing to insure security and tranquility, win the hearts and minds of those wary of the Taliban, and by failing to provide an economically attractive alternative to the cultivation of poppies and the production of heroin.

We continue to support the government of General Musharraf in Pakistan, a military dictator whose secretive security forces—and, even units of its regular military—provided logistical support, arms and financial resources which resulted in the installation of the Taliban in the first place. A government which employed, supported and protected agents who almost single handedly boosted the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. The very outcome that Valerie Plame worked so hard to prevent. And, we all know how well that effort turned out…

Until we invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, we failed to provide sufficient support to elements of the Northern Alliance, who fought the Taliban and its Pakistani benefactors.

Is there anyone—not still drinking the cool-aid—who actually wonders how things have turned out this way? A rookie intelligence analyst with a rudimentary knowledge of the nations involved, and of the historical, political and economic forces in play, would have seen this coming. I imagine, at that level, they all did.

But, they should definitely hold onto their ideas and dreams because one of these days maybe, just maybe Afghanistan will be free.

The best they can do EVER in that direction is to briefly quote Juan Cole, whom they now present as an “Iraq expert”, despite the fact that Iraq has never been his area of study, and he has never set foot in that country. (I am not saying that Juan Cole as nothing of value to offer – he is certainly more qualified than most of the “experts” we see on the MSM, but he is not an expert on Iraq, has never even been there, and though he has lots of good information, his analysis on Iraq is often far off the mark.)

The wars are meant solely to generate money for banks and defense contractors. That’s it.

All talk of rebuilding a country’s infrastructure is bogus (remember all the talk about Iraq’s Marshall Plan?)
All talk of providing security for locals is bogus (ask two million Iraqi refugees how secure their locales were in Iraq).
All talk of winning hearts and minds of locals is bogus. The locals in Iraq and Afghanistan hate our guts. It’s way past the point where we can change that. Especially not by blasting into their homes and carting off their fathers to be tortured somewhere.
All talk of avoiding civilian casualties is bogus. In the Iraq War, the conservative estimates of civilian casualties is hundreds of thousands, and they make up at least 80% of the total casualties.

The only people that make money are bankers and contractors. They profit off war spoils. Rebuilding is not nearly as profitable as defense contracting, so they aren’t nearly as interested.

The wars are created to put the people of both the USA and the invaded countries into deeper debt to the banks.

Destabilized countries that owe their soul to international banking corporations are the desired result of the invasions.

In this sense, neither the Iraq nor the Afghanistan War are failures. The people who started those wars knew exactly how destabilizing they would be, and how much profits they could generate as a result of the invasions and the instability. They also knew they could operate in lawless zones without the need for proper tracking of their activities.

They made gobs of money.

And now they have their greedy eyes set on Iran, where the desired result is remarkably similar to what they created in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And they’ll make gobs more money, and America will go deeper in debt to them.