The most
ridiculous actor in the fictitious U.S. withdrawal from
Afghanistan is not President Hamid Karzai, the hustler the U.S.
installed as its puppet after the American invasion in 2001. The
real clowns in this charade are those Americans that pretend to
believe President Obama when he says the U.S. war in Afghanistan
will end on the last day of next year.
Obama is, of course,
lying through his teeth.
The United States and its NATO allies
plan to keep 10,000 to 16,000 troops in the country, occupying
nine bases, some of them set aside for exclusive American use –
and would remain there at least ten years, through 2024.
Shamelessly, Obama claims these troops – including thousands
from the Special Operations killer elite – will have no “combat”
role. It’s the same lie President Kennedy told in 1963, when he
called the 16,000 U.S. troops then stationed
in Vietnam “advisors,” and the same bald-faced deception
that Obama, himself, tried to pull off, unsuccessfully, in Iraq
– until the Iraqis kicked the Americans out.
Barack
Obama has arrogated to himself the right to redefine the very
meaning of war, having two years ago declared that the 7-month
U.S. bombing campaign against Libya was not really a war because
no Americans were killed.
In Afghanistan, Obama waves his
semantic magic wand to
transform the past 12 years of war into 10 more years of
not-war, simply by changing the nomenclature. This is
hucksterism from Hell.
“There
is zero chance of a zero option.”
If there
was a Devil, he would be laughing his butt off at Susan Rice,
Obama’s National Security Advisor and raving Banshee of War,
whose assignment is to pretend that the U.S. might choose the
so-called “Zero
Option” if President Karzai doesn’t immediately sign away
his country to the Americans for the next ten years.
By “Zero
Option,” Washington means it might just pick up its killer
soldiers and weapons and leave Afghanistan. But that’s an empty
bluff. Since when has the U.S. voluntarily left anyplace it has
forcibly occupied? There is zero chance of a zero option.
But, I
am reminded of the events in 1963 Vietnam, when the Vietnamese
president Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were overthrown and
executed in a U.S.-backed coup. Sending the homicidal Susan Rice
to get in President Karzai’s face is definitely some kind of
threat.
Far from
ending U.S. imperial wars, Barack Obama has expanded the
theaters of armed conflict.
He tried to keep U.S. troops in
Iraq, but the Iraqis insisted on the withdrawal terms and
timetable they had negotiated with President George Bush.
Iraq
is now paying a heavy price, as the U.S. and its allies arm
Iraqi Al Qaida and other jihadist elements fighting to overthrow
the government of neighboring Syria. These U.S.-backed jihadists
– the same ones the Americans fought against in Iraq for eight
years – now wage war against Shiites on both sides of the
border.
If there
is any hope for an eventual peace in the region, it is that
Washington might finally begin to understand that it can no
longer control events through brute force, or by using jihadists
as surrogates in the Middle East and South Asia.
Maybe that’s
why the Americans have tried to strike a deal with Iran. Maybe
President Karzai thinks the winds of change will be sweeping
through his neighborhood, soon, and he doesn’t want to go out
like the puppet he came in.
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