Late August, the United States’ imperial plans in Afghanistan have fallen embarrassingly flat. And they should have.
They call that place “The Graveyard of Empires” for good reason.
We should have gone in dynamically, executed Bin Laden and gotten out.
But we didn't, and we succumbed to our inevitable fate.
It is disappointing to watch allied Afghanis, so desperate to escape, be left behind.
Their lives would not have been so jeopardized had we not engaged in a twenty year war but alas here we are.
I believe the Taliban to be evil and my position has never been ‘Fuck the Afghan people’ but rather ‘Fuck perpetual, imperial war prodded on by the military industrial complex.’
I hope good humans from the mountains of Afghanistan and across the globe engage this evil and purge it from those mountains but I cannot endorse this perpetual war with the arrogance of trying to kill and idea.
Peace, Love, Empathy
M
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