Brown College’s value of the Afghan struggle venture simply concluded that America’s longest struggle value an estimated $US 2.2 trillion {dollars} – that’s ‘trillion {dollars}.”
If we add in George W. Bush’s faux `struggle on terror,’ Brown’s students estimate that the associated fee rises to US $8 trillion!
Most of this enormous quantity was financed by loans, not via taxes. That means that each greenback spent have to be paid for by borrowing. Meaning paying curiosity (raised by taxes) on the borrowed cash – $95 billion {dollars} of taxpayer cash that Biden simply gave to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine in a determined try to purchase the November election.
Curiously, the much-ballyhooed struggle in Afghanistan has all however vanished from the media. All of the CNN generals who postured on TV concerning the Afghan Struggle have fallen into silence. They had been lifeless fallacious concerning the struggle. The minute Donald Trump ended the Afghan Struggle by reducing off the billions in US cash that stored the corrupt US-backed Kabul regime alive, the struggle ended and the blizzard of propaganda towards Taliban abated. The $2.2 trillion struggle abruptly turned unimportant.
I used to be blacklisted by high newspapers and TV stations within the US, Mideast and Europe for having predicted that the Taliban resistance motion would win the battle. I wrote that Taliban was the one reputable mass political motion in Afghanistan. America co-opted different teams, just like the heroin-dealing Tajik Northern Alliance and a few anti-Taliban factions backed by Russia or Iran. The US ended up backing the Afghan heroin commerce – which Taliban has utterly shut down because it returned to energy in Kabul.
America is essentially the most over-propagandized nation on earth. Individuals are barraged across the clock by authorities propaganda, industrial messages, web agitprop and pro-war films. Even the outdated Soviet Union was not so flooded by continuous propaganda.
Right now, we get 24/7 promoting for Ukraine, Taiwan and, after all, Israel. Girls have been a selected goal for the anti-Taliban propaganda – the identical Taliban that had been US allies within the 1980’s, as I noticed. Taliban’s mountaineers are a wild and loopy bunch of warriors. The whole lot they consider in runs counter to the overly feminized United States.
The zeitgeist of the Afghan warriors Taliban’s credo is ‘tobacco, weapons, and struggle.’
My columns about why struggle in Afghanistan was an enormous mistake made me an object of hate. A former born-again evangelical prime minister of Canada really despatched his flunkies to get my 40-year outdated column dropped from the nation’s largest newspaper. He detested what I needed to say however apparently misplaced no sleep over the scores of Canadian troopers he despatched to their loss of life in Afghanistan or the thousands and thousands wasted on the silly Afghan Struggle.
Politicians and generals who lose wars and trillions of {dollars} ought to admit their folly and resign. The media that promoted the colonial Afghan struggle ought to be rid of the propagandists infesting its ranks. Right now, we see CNN, the New York Occasions, and Fox, the dual voices of America’s neocons, cheer-leading for the massacres in Gaza.
As an alternative, these newscasters who shilled for the Afghan Struggle at the moment are busily promoted President Biden’s wars. They and TV commentators appear to have no disgrace in relation to their vastly bloody, costly errors in Afghanistan. Nor do we discover many commentators or critics who share the least guilt over carpet bombing Afghan villages by B-52 and B-1 heavy bombers.
What number of Afghan civilians did we kill? The Pentagon refuses to launch estimates. The Soviets are estimated to have killed two million Afghans. I consider the US has killed at the very least a million.
A trillion {dollars} right here, a trillion {dollars} there, out of the blue we’re taking about actual cash. A part of the damaging inflation that immediately bedevils America was brought on by reckless authorities spending on Afghanistan – in addition to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
