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"We know these wars have nothing to do with democracy or security or women's rights or peace or stability. They are fought for money and power and nothing else."
Precisely so! Wars are never for liberation, humanitarian reasons or democratic values. They're for imperial dominance, colonization, resource and people exploitation, and war profiteering enrichment, no matter the body count to achieve them.
"Our comrades' blood has lubricated the ambitions of the few," read Glenton.
On October 6, Guardian writer Simon Jenkins wrote what's never seen on US television or broadsheet op-eds, headling: "Vanity, machismo and greed have blinded us to the folly of Afghanistan," saying:
"Everything about Afghanistan beggars belief. This week," Washington's installed puppet leader Karzai "brazenly signed a military agreement with India, knowing it would enrage" Pakistan."Meanwhile, in Washington, the Pentagon is exulting over its new strategy of drone killing, claiming this aerial 'counterterrorism' " can win hearts and minds.
In Helmand, British journalists regurgitated the Big Lie about "real progress" being made.
In private meetings, generals admit the war was lost years ago, whatever strategy is used. No matter. Entering its second decade, it's ongoing endlessly.
War in Afghanistan "has been a catalogue of unrelieved folly....Britain's part in this has been dire....Democracy has snatched defeat from the arms of victory - without a shred of a reason."
New York Times and Washington Post editorial writers commemorated the Afghan war's 10th anniversary with silence. Television reports regurgitated the Big Lie heard in Britain and America about progress being made.
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