COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JONATHAN MARSHALL IN RUSSIA
INSIDER
“Time to Admit the
Afghan War is Nonsense”
From the very start, the entire war has been nonsense -
albeit, very violent nonsense.
Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11. All that it did was
allow Osama bin Laden to live there.
Bin Laden himself has never been shown to be responsible for
9/11. There is not a shred of proof offered by America. The corporate press has
just assumed his guilt from the first. He’s a handy symbol for presumed jihadi
extremism.
And that's what the Taleban government, all those years ago,
said when the US first asked for his extradition.
They said, “Show us some proof.” Providing some proof is the
normal procedure in any request for extradition, but the US arrogantly refused
and prepared to invade.
After all these years and countless billions of dollars,
American achievement in Afghanistan amounts to killing and terrorizing a great
many people, causing the Taleban to shift and move around, and releasing upon
the entire Western world waves of opium-based poisons to such an extent prices
fell and extreme gang violence has broken out in American cities.
The Taleban government originally had banned opium
production, but the US changed all that with their heavy-handed blundering, and
the CIA has undoubtedly used opium sales as an off-the-books source of income,
the kind of thing it so often does.
