NOT everybody lost in the Afghan War, but it was not the Taliban that won. Of course, the Taliban has taken over Kabul, the capital and seat of power of Afghanistan, but they still have to win the peace, if at all possible, and then they have to win the economic and political reconstruction. No, the Taliban has not yet won.
Everybody knows who clearly lost. The U.S. lost, but first it lost its marbles after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989; the US started thinking it is going to be the ‘Master of the Universe’ and gaining physical control of the world is the only remaining thing to do.
So, a bunch of America’s brightest neo-conservative boys (think tankers they are called) got together and formulated the final plan of US Imperialism. They put it down on paper and it became a book entitled, “Project for a New American Century” (PNAC for short).
Some of the names involved in PNAC the younger generations of political analysts might even know now were the likes of Robert Kagan, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Vice President Dick Cheney and others; all of them became part of Pres. George W. (Dubya) Bush 2000’s wars.
The crucial content of the PNAC was its vision of a world solely dominated by the USA and its military-industrial-finance complex; Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” neo-liberal and capitalist paradise was just a cover along with is call for the staging of a “New Pearl Harbor.”
Pearl Harbor gave WWII President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the excuse to enter that war; for PNAC, for the global domination they envisioned, they needed a similar spectacle to shock the American people into accepting the global war they planned to launch—the global war against terrorism and the so-called ‘Axis of Evil’ – Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and later elaborated by Gen. Wesley Clark, a war against Libya, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon and the Sudan.
The ‘Pearl Harbor’ the conspirators designed was the 9/11 World Trade Towers (WTC) terror attack when two planes crashed into WTC Towers 1 and 2 killing 2,996 Americans.
That gave Bush the reason to attack Iraq after he had attacked Afghanistan earlier despite the Taliban’s offer to turn in Osama Bin Laden, who planned 9/11.
Bush wanted the war; it is not actually after Bin Laden nor giving justice for the WTC attack. Bush was part of the choreographed WTC terror attack where the consequences defied the laws of physics – two steel-girded 110 stories buildings collapsing into their own location in less than 10 secs or the speed of a falling rock by gravity.
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The ‘Architect and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,’ consisting of around 4,000 professional building designers and scientists believe, rightfully, that the destruction of the WTC towers was an “inside job.”
The complex of buildings was condemned due to massive asbestos use but Jewish oligarch Larry Silverstein took the complex with a $ 14-M down payment—and cashed in $ 4.55-billion in insurance payment after the terror attack.
The President’s brother, Marvin Bush, was in charge of WTC security;Vice-President Dick Cheney who likes to run “war games,” took command of NORAD and ordered a “stand down” of defense war planes; BBC then announced on television the collapse of Building 7 while it was still standing behind its reporter making the report on TV.
Short of writing a book volume to show how the “inside job” was done, I am putting here tidbits that may prompt the readers to do more research.
The real aim in the US invasion was never the retrieval of Osama bin Laden, saving the Afghan women from the oppressive Taliban or “nation building” that we now hear.
It was simply for the profit of the only real winners – the US and European defense industry and contractors (remember, Nato also joined), the political establishment (to include the politicians and think tanks).
The US spent $2-trillion or $300-million a day for twenty-years for the Afghan War. This is equivalent to $50,000.00 for each of the nearly 40-million Afghan population (in our currency, that would be P2.5-million each).
If they had just spent that on the Afghans since the 2001 invasion and with only 20 percent for the fight against the Taliban, Afghan society would be so middle-class by now and the Taliban totally routed that America could have owned Afghanistan without much resistance.
On the other hand, China plans to spend $4.5-trillion on the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) to cover Eurasia all the way to Africa with railways, road, industrial, power and telecom networks, and the Maritime Silk Road across the seas of Europe, Asia, Pacific, Oceania, all the way to Latin America, to create prosperity for all and conquer the world with hope and progress.
Seems that will be the way of the future after the US defeat in Afghanistan.
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