Howdy Folks, thanks to the corporate media you are taken for a ride. So buckle up! It is worth all your money. And at the same time:'The Taliban are gone. The Al Qaeda are gone.' The only troubling fact is that Osama bin Laden is not on the FBI's most wanted list for the attacks of 9/11, because they finally realized that he was not the mastermind behind them. And of course you still know that Afghanistan was invaded to catch first and foremost Osama himself. Perhaps it is time to leave now. Your military has devestated enough. It will take the Afghans the rest of this century to repair all the damage. Like the Russians you messed up and now you are broke, just like the Russians. Only your gangsters became richer than ever, just like in Russia. And nobody will help you, not the Jews in Israel, not the christians in Europe, and the rest of the world hates you even more. Such is life. Now the show is almost over, at home as well as abroad, try to end it gracefully. You owe it to yourselves. Be glad you are still alive. The rich Roman general Marcus Licinius Crasssus was less lucky, after he lost the battle against the Parthians they taught him a lesson by pouring molten gold down his throat to quench his insatiable thirst for more. You were able to conquer the West, you cannot conquer the East. Nobody can. And as Mark Twain stated: you cannot have an empire in the east and remain a democracy at home. So try to give substance to your democracy by leaving the east to itself.
Editor's Notebook: Afghan War Now Country's Longest
Afghan War Now Marks Another Grim Milestone
June 7, 2010
The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago. Less than a month had passed since the September 11 attacks, and President Bush could draw on deep wells of support when he ordered air strikes against Kabul , Jalalabad and theTaliban stronghold at Kandahar.
"We are supported," Bush said that day, with only slight exaggeration, "by the collective will of the world."
By mid-November American forces had driven the Taliban from the capital; at month's end Kandahar was in the U.S. sights; in early December the Taliban leadership fled, and Marines set up a base near the Kandahar airfield.
No one proclaimed "Mission Accomplished," but they might as well have. Surely, it seemed, this would be a brief campaign.
On the one-year anniversary, in October 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN, "The Taliban are gone. The Al Qaeda are gone."
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