Been quiet for a while as I wait for the COVID shoe to drop on my income but recent events warrants popping out of my hole to chat for a bit. Besides I'm bored of writing about COVID. At this point the jig is up on the vaccines and these new Medical Jim Crow popping up across the country are simply the left baring it's teeth and "dropping the mask" as it were. But again, not here to talk about that.
Afghanistan. For those uninitiated these 'backward" people defeated the British, Russians and now Americans. For those of us who saw the Rambo movies, at least knew about the Russians.
The Taliban is an American creation. Created by the US intelligence agencies (who now proclaim that being against medical tyranny is "domestic extremism") in order to route the Russians. The US was good with Osama Bin-Ladin when he was "killing bears" but when he turned on his puppet masters, well, he had to go. But that's how it goes in the intelligence agencies. You're an asset until you are a liability.
Apparently nobody in these agencies thought that Islamic fundamentalists would look at the 'decadance" of America and say "hmmmm that devil's got to go too..."
Eh, they're backwater...welll back sand goat herders with AKs and no real training. We got nukes.
Yeah, we got nukes.
Look, The Ghost was against the Afghanistan war from the jump. The people responsible for 9-11 were Saudis. But anyway, the reason America "lost" this war is simple. War is "too civilized" now.
See back in the day, like, waaay back in the day. A superior force would send a messenger, kinda like that movie 300. We're coming. Surrender or we kill everything and burn what's left. If you had a "good enough" reputation for that, those people would surrender and there would be little if any war. But if the target decided on a "freedom or death" approach, well, there are no "rules of engagement." If it moves and is not on your team, it's dead. If it's un-burnt, it's burnt. If it has a vagina, it's raped.
That's how war used to be. Those were the stakes. Literal "freedom or death".
The US has and had the ability to completely flatten Afghanistan and kill off much of it's population in the process. It would not have been "pretty" and certainly would have violated "international norms". But it certainly could have been done.
Rule could have been cooperate or die. Tell us where the Taliban is or die. Including wives, children, parents.
Now for most of you reading this, you're like "that's cruel". Yeah. That's what war actually is.
The US didn't do that (and really had no justification for such a thing since the Afghan invasion was unjustified to begin with). It decided to pussyfoot arouund and get a lot of soldiers killed or maimed.
For what?
So some so-called "nation builders" could "improve the lives of women" and fly LGBT and BLM flags and virtue signal to people who would throw them off roofs if given the chance. So I have no sympathy for them now. I wouldn't send a single US citizen to help them get out of Kabul.
Fuck em.
Seriously.
The only people I feel sympathy for are the men and women in uniform who signed up after 9-11 and thought, mistakenly, that they were "protecting America". They should be disabused of that notion by now. I feel for the families that lost people under that illusion. Who lost people because of the arrogance and incompetence of the so called "leadership" who is currently more concerned with "white privilege" than actually defending the country and upholding the rule of law and the rights protected by our supreme document.
Just a few weeks ago Biden said that what we see happening wouldn't happen.
Now all the world can see the lie and the liars. Same people who tell you that you "have to" wear a mask that viruses pass right through and around, in order to "protect yourself".
Do you get it now?
Meanwhile the Chinese? Well they'll be doing *business* with the Taliban 'cause they generally understand to mind their own business and DO business.
Meanwhile in America, gasoline prices are up 30% since Joe took office. Food prices are up about the same. Your, and my, retirement accounts have probably lost 30% or more of it's purchasing power.
Private property rights, a fundamental thing in America has been tossed aside and the courts apparently don't care one bit.
You may think these latter things are not relevant to Kabul. They are. A competent and serious country would not have these things happening.
America left the "serious country' realm not too long ago. It has now left the "competent" realm.
And all the world has a front row seat.