The Taliban victory in Afghanistan completes a 43-yr arc begun when NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski sought to entrap USSR into a quagmire by arming the radical Muhajadin. He considered Soviet invasion a victory for US interests. bit.ly/2VP2qbn
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This joins a history of myopic and fantastically costly covert operations with disastrous long-term effects: coups in Iran, Guatemala, intervention in Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Iraq, the “war on terror,” drone attacks, etc.
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2nd-guessing tactical decisions in Afghan are beside the point without deeper scrutiny of the imperial mindset of the national security state. Otherwise there will be future Afghanistans. Meanwhile, prepare for the battle to assign blame for “losing Afghanistan.”

Aug 15, 2021 · 2:58 PM UTC
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