they played that dangerous game that their buddy America loves to play. Now they're reaping the rewards. I know I come off as anti-American in many ways, but that is not the case. Most of my best friends are Americans, white, black, even Jewish! They're the ones paying for the mistakes of the meddling speculators in Washington. They're the ones paying the taxes, they're the ones suffering from the increasing hostility against the US around the world, and finally, they are the ones dying far from home for reasons which no American officials have the guts to make public. There's tons of books written about the problem by everyone, from Christian pastors of good conscience and courage (who as we've seen, get institutionally demonized for speaking out), through highly educated world-class thinkers (some Noam Chomsky would be in order, and I'd add Howard Zinn, Mearsheimer & Walt too). The fact these guys get dismissed either as "leftist lunatics" or even more absurdly, as "anti-Semites" in favour of patent fascists and morons like the Ann Coulters of this world speaks of the power the brainwash machine of hatred.
Stone Cold -> I'm afraid this is not the case. Why then, is America and the rest of the west spending mountains of money on reigning in Afghanistan. Let's remember, these "Taliban" were paraded in previous administrations as "exemplary" friends of the west. This is what happens when you play with fire, you get burned. Or, when you put money over mind. It's a funny predicament, the Taliban were created to fill a hole that ensued from the removal of the "red plague". Now that same "red plague", in the form of China though, is being asked to bail out a west that is losing ground while it stretches itself really thin trying to put out a forest fire it has itself played a major role in starting. I don't like what's going on, it sickens me every damn day I watch the news and another bomb blows up a hundred women and children, but for the powers that be, there is at least poetic justice, punishment for lack of foresight or better yet, that American political ailment that many muslim governments share, "Tunnel Vision".
they played that dangerous game that their buddy America loves to play. Now they're reaping the rewards. I know I come off as anti-American in many ways, but that is not the case. Most of my best friends are Americans, white, black, even Jewish! They're the ones paying for the mistakes of the meddling speculators in Washington. They're the ones paying the taxes, they're the ones suffering from the increasing hostility against the US around the world, and finally, they are the ones dying far from home for reasons which no American officials have the guts to make public. There's tons of books written about the problem by everyone, from Christian pastors of good conscience and courage (who as we've seen, get institutionally demonized for speaking out), through highly educated world-class thinkers (some Noam Chomsky would be in order, and I'd add Howard Zinn, Mearsheimer & Walt too). The fact these guys get dismissed either as "leftist lunatics" or even more absurdly, as "anti-Semites" in favour of patent fascists and morons like the Ann Coulters of this world speaks of the power the brainwash machine of hatred.
Stone Cold -> I'm afraid this is not the case. Why then, is America and the rest of the west spending mountains of money on reigning in Afghanistan. Let's remember, these "Taliban" were paraded in previous administrations as "exemplary" friends of the west. This is what happens when you play with fire, you get burned. Or, when you put money over mind. It's a funny predicament, the Taliban were created to fill a hole that ensued from the removal of the "red plague". Now that same "red plague", in the form of China though, is being asked to bail out a west that is losing ground while it stretches itself really thin trying to put out a forest fire it has itself played a major role in starting. I don't like what's going on, it sickens me every damn day I watch the news and another bomb blows up a hundred women and children, but for the powers that be, there is at least poetic justice, punishment for lack of foresight or better yet, that American political ailment that many muslim governments share, "Tunnel Vision".