Walt is amazed that, all of a sudden, it has become politically acceptable to call the war in/on Afghanistan a waste of time, money and 1000s of lives. Even the lamestream media are starting to stray from the government line, now that said line -- that we're there to bring peace, democracy and civilization to the barbaric hordes -- has been proven to be a big black crock of shit.
A couple of days ago, Walt passed on Lawrence Martin's review of Murray Brewster's new book, The Savage War. Today Jeffrey Simpson (Martin's stablemate at the Moan and Wail) joins the chorus with "The timeless intractability of Afghanistan". He begins: Whom are we kidding in Afghanistan? Ourselves, it would appear.
Well, not really. As Walt has said before (ahem!), we are not kidding ourselves. We are being kidded by the governments of the USA, the UK, and Canada. And the lamestream media -- led by the likes of the Globe and Mail, the Times (New York) and the other Times -- have been abetting the ongoing and thoroughly vile deception. Until this week. Told ya so!
The Americans will stay on forever in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteOver time, their lonely, sex-starved soldiers will marry Afghan women, convert to Islam, have lots of children, grow and trade heroin for a living, and realize that the Taliban lifestyle ain't so bad.
20 years later, this new breed of well-trained American Talibans will declare war on the West.
Osama couldn't have planned this ending.