The Afghanistan War

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Why?

Since 2001-10-07 for 10 years and 4 months, the United States, Britain and Canada have been killing and torturing large numbers of Afghans of all ages and genders using all manner of illegal, cruel and unusual techniques. Why? The only official excuse I have heard is they thought this would help them find bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of 9/11. But that makes no sense. The military has said they don’t even think he was in Afghanistan, much less how killing Afghans would help the search. The real reasons make sense, though they are crass:

$1 trillion a year in heroin profits.
a free pipeline route for Unocal
Similar to Hitler’s use of the Spanish civil war — a place to test new weapons. The US has perfected, banned weapons, robotic soldiers and predator drones. The idea is to fight war as a video game, safely far away by remote control.
huge amounts of lithium to use in high performance batteries

Keep in mind not even Bush claimed the Taliban had any part in 9/11, so punishing Afghan children for 9/11 is beyond insane.

Four Lies About the Afghanistan War

American must feel very guilty about what they did to the Afghan people, or why else would the constantly tell each other the same obvious lies?

Americans claim the Taliban attacked America
Even George W. Bush says it was Al-Qaeda that attacked on 9/11, not the Taliban. Not even one of the alleged 9/11 conspirators was an Afghan or Iraqi. They were nearly all Saudis. The United States attacked Afghanistan first and illegally. Aiding and abetting that American occupation is a capital war crime.
Americans claim the Taliban are a serious security threat to the USA
How could they be when their only weapons are a kitchen-made road-side bombs? They have no humvees, tanks, ships, planes, ICBMs… The Taliban just want their country back, same as they wanted it back from the Russians. They did not threaten the Russians either. The USA has roughly 10 times bigger a population that Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s population in mostly under 15. America is bombing the shit out of nation of children! An average American brings in $2750.00 USD per month. The average Afghan brings in $30.00 USD per month. Americans claiming self defence against Afghanistan is like Mike Tyson claiming self defence in a mugging/rape of Miley Cyrus. There are only 100 Al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan. Just how few have to be left before Americans can feel safe? This paranoia is stark raving bonkers.
Americans claim the Taliban are insurgents
That is nonsense. Back in 2001, the Taliban were the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Even if we don’t like their fundamentalist religion, they still have the support of the majority of the Afghan population which is almost completely Muslim. Hamid Karzai is a puppet dictator imposed by the US military. His band of warlords and druglords collaborated with a foreign enemy. That makes them traitors, collaborators and insurgents. It is a situation similar to the Nazi occupation of France in WW II with the provisional government of morally bankrupt French collaborators appointed by the Nazis.
Americans flatter themselves
Americans flatter themselves by claiming the Afghans love having the Americans occupying their country. Think of the suffering the Afghan people endured to be free of the occupying Russians then later the Americans. It is a David and Goliath story. The Afghans take massive casualties and sacrifice their lives in suicide attacks just to kill one occupying soldier. Only because the Afghans are so determined to be free and only because the Afghan people are so unified have they managed to fight to a standstill the world’s largest military power for 10 years and 4 months.

Child casualties images
torturing prisoners

Why?

Disgust is far too gentle a word I feel for the citizens of the USA, Canada and Britain who have been illegally bombing and occupying Afghanistan for 10 years, 4 months and 6 days. When the citizens debate whether to continue tormenting the Afghans who did nothing to harm the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) countries, and further have no means to, the only issue citizens consider is Can we win? They almost never ask themselves deeper questions like:

Why are we doing this?
What do we hope to accomplish?
How would things be different if we won or if we just came home?
What are the benefits to us of this extended slaughter?
What business have we in meddling in the internal affairs of a tiny impoverished country on the other side of the planet?
What could possibly justify the cruelty we inflicted on the Afghan child burned in a NATO bombing in the photo to the right?
Why are we willing to bankrupt our country in a pointless, endless war?

Since almost no one asks these questions and no politician ever answers them, I must presume the answers are shameful. What is it that motivates us?

We treat the war like an Olympic speed-skating event. We just can’t stand the shame of being held to a stalemate by a country much smaller and poorer than us, especially since we have the help of the largest and most advanced military on the planet. We we are butchering kids in the name of stubborn national pride.
We want a share of the spoils — Afghanistan’s lithium and Iraq’s oil.
We Canadians and Britons are cowards. We do it only because the Americans tell us to.
In North America, we manufacture almost nothing but weapons, so the war is just a cynical make-work program to pay off arms makers who bribe politicians and to create make-work jobs that don’t actually need doing.
We are bigots and sadists who love the idea of torturing Muslim children.

Legality

Many people are under the delusion the war in Afghanistan is legal. It is not for a number of reasons.

It was an aggressive (first strike) unprovoked war. Aiding an abetting such a war in a capital war crime.
The UN did not authorise it. Bush-43 went to the United National Security Council to get a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. He failed. You have to remember that. This war has never been authorized by the United Nations Security Council.
Congress did not declare it as required by the constitution.
The Leahy Law prohibits U.S. military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity. The Karzai regime is as sick and corrupt as any in history.

Infant victims of the Afghan war pix

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The Afghanistan War

Why?

Four Lies About the Afghanistan War

Americans claim the Taliban attacked America

Americans claim the Taliban are a serious security threat to the USA

Americans claim the Taliban are insurgents

Americans flatter themselves

Why?

Legality