Finally, after a long wait, the world is about to celebrate the end of a nightmare that should have started and ended in a few days, twenty years ago.
It
is the Afghan War that was necessitated by the tragedy of 9/11, and the refusal
of Afghanistan’s Taliban to hand the culprit that caused it, Usama Bin Laden
(UBL) to America for trial. The Americans responded by retaliating militarily
against Afghanistan, a job that was completed in a week or so. And this is when
the Americans should have gone home but did not. Why not?
It
seems that the Americans got into the habit of playing cops to a world they
gradually came to view as robbers. Well, they turned out to be very bad cops,
even if they were correct in thinking that the world was full of crooks. But
even then, the Americans made the mistake of identifying the wrong people as
crooks, while listening to, and taking advice from the real crooks who
masqueraded as paragons of virtue.
And
there lies the jinx of America’s constant demise at the hands of her so-called
friends and allies. The most terrible being the neocons who thirst to use
America’s power and prestige to conquer the world under a plan they call Pax
Americana. To that end, the neocons have been telling America it is threatened
by an existential danger emanating from an Arab and Muslim world; a world that
happens to form the neighborhood where Israel is situated. It is also a
neighborhood that represents a buffer zone, which keeps Israel’s appetite for
expansion under check.
To
the Jews of America and Israel, America used to represent their best hope to
break up the large neighboring countries into smaller rumps that Israel can
overrun, and charge through the buffer zone that keeps it contained. To
convince America to play the role they designed for it, the Jews came up with
several narratives that seemed to work for a while, but were eventually
debunked.
Undaunted,
the Jewish neocons came up with a new narrative that seems to work for them at
this time. But something else has happened as well that’s worrying them. It is
that the new Biden administration has decided to end America’s twenty-year
involvement in Afghanistan. This is pitting the rationale behind the American pullout
against the new Jewish narrative. Here is how that narrative begins:
“Afghanistan
is not an ‘endless war.’ Our presence there more closely resembles our
continued involvement in Germany, Japan or Korea”.
You’ll
find this quotation in the article that came under the title: “Biden, the
marshmallow in chief, has learned nothing about Iran and Afghanistan,” written
by Gary Anderson, and published on April 17, 2021 in The Washington Times.
This
is as close as the neocon leaders came to admitting that the rhetoric they were
spewing all along about America coming near to completing its mission in
Afghanistan and going home, was nothing more than throwing dust in the eyes of
the beholders. The real intent of the neocons has always been to keep America
pinned down in the Afghan quagmire in fulfillment of the Pax Americana scheme
they envisage serving the interests of Israel like never before.
That
fake narrative was seconded by the contrived analysis of the editors at
National Review Online who wrote the following in a piece they published on
April 16, 2021 under the title, Biden’s risky Afghan Exit:
“It’s
just not true that, as Biden put it, our reasons for remaining in Afghanistan
are becoming increasingly unclear … The mission requires a continued US
presence”.
The
trouble with this narrative is that countries such as Vietnam, Afghanistan,
Iraq and others, are not in the same category as Germany, Japan or Korea. The
latter had regular armies that were defeated on the battlefield, and with that
came the occupation, which the exhausted civilian population could not fight
against. Thus, the occupation went on without popular resistance, and in time,
came to be accepted as part of the landscape.
The
same cannot be said about populations that view an American occupation as the
foreigners who come to change the way they live because someone believes they
are primitive barbarians who need to be whipped into a civilized state. Nothing
can be more insulting than this … it’s a humiliation that calls for the defense
of the national honor, and almost everyone responds to such calls.
Aware
of the neocons’ narrative, Jacob Heilbrunn who is the editor of The National
Interest, preempted their publication of it a few days earlier by publishing
the reality of the situation in an article of his own. It came under the title:
“Joe Biden Ends the Afghan Nightmare,” printed on April 13, 2021 in the
National Interest. Here is how Heilbrunn expressed his ideas:
“In
announcing a complete exit from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has dispensed
with the fiction that America can somehow not only defeat the Taliban but also
remake Afghanistan. It never could”.
The
truth can be unpleasant at times, which is why some people avoid it like the
plague. But the truth is the medicine that heals the festering wounds, maybe
not so much those of the body, but the wounds of the spirit and the mind.
America needs large doses of that medicine to snap out its moribund descent into mass madness. The Evangelicals need to be pulled out their state of hypnotic trance to see for themselves that there is no Jerusalem in the sky waiting to be plucked by them. Selling America to the Jews in return for a lie that’s as obvious as the one about green men from Mars, will only earn them the contempt of future generations; their own embarrassed offspring.