Why This Vietcong Sympathizer Wishes America Had Acted like John Wayne SOBS in Afghanistan
by
David Gottfried
I am very busy so I will have to keep this short and to the point:
If you are going to remember only one thing from this essay, remember this:
The Soviets were well on their way to destroying the Taliban. However, the United States, mentally impaired because of its monomania about Communism and Russia, saved the Taliban. If it hadn’t been for Ronald Mc Donald Reagan, 9/11 would be an innocent, autumn day.
BIDEN, OUR BUMBLING, FEEBLE-MINDED FOOL OF A PRESIDENT, COULDN’T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND VIETNAM.
Biden always counseled withdrawal from Afghanistan. Several years ago, I read, in either the NY Times or the New Yorker, that Biden continuously interrupted Obama’s Cabinet meetings by telling anecdotes about the Vietnam War which, Biden believed, argued for our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Finally, Obama was so incensed by Biden’s interruptions that he commanded him to shut-up about Vietnam. (I know I talk about Vietnam and the Sixties a lot, but I never asked you to elect me President.)
Biden is like many Americans who don’t know anything about history. For them, every war is either another Vietnam or not another Vietnam. This is because they are hardly aware of any other wars.
Like a lot of dunces, Biden thought Afghanistan was a carbon copy of Vietnam. In Vietnam we were either on the wrong side or were the wrong side. The Vice President of South Vietnam, the nation we were allegedly defending, said that South Vietnam needed 5 Adolf Hitlers. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are theocratic fascists from the Middle Ages and are as evil and despicable as the Nazis. By contrast, when North Vietnam proclaimed its freedom from the Japanese and the French at the end of World War Two, Ho Chi Minh read the new State’s Constitution to an assembly in Hanoi. It began with the language of our Declaration of Independence.
WE WERE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF ANNIHILATING THE TALIBAN
I heard some “newsman” on the idiot box say that we just could not defeat the Taliban and so we finally had to leave. What fucking idiots !!! Our troop levels in Afghanistan were, for the most part, no more than a few thousand. Shortly after the commencement of our involvement, we briefly had 100,000 men in Afghanistan. In 20 years, we lost fewer than 3,000 troops. By contrast, the British lost 2000 men in Iraq in under 2 years at the end of World War One, but hardly anyone in Britain even remembers that war because it pales into insignificance next to World War One, when Britain lost hundreds of thousands of men.
Compare the petite size of our forces in Iraq next to United States’ forces in World War Two: Well over 10 million Americans were in the armed forces fighting the Nazis.
If we had wanted to destroy the Taliban, we could have done that a long time ago.
Instead, we sent very few troops to Afghanistan, stayed 20 years and conveyed the notion that the war was taking so long because the Taliban were mighty, and America was a nation of mice
THE UNITED STATES AIDED THE TALIBAN JUST AS THE UNITED KINGDOM AIDED HITLER.
United States Policy in South Central Asia is Reminiscent of British Foreign Policy, with respect to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, in the 1930’s.
In the 1930’s, Britain politics was dominated by what was called the “Respectable Tendency.” The respectable tendency was characterized by two salient traits: ONE, be staunchly conservative on economic affairs, the workers be damned, and TWO, be nice to Adolf Hitler as he is the major antagonist of the Soviet Union, which proclaims that it is the champion of the workers.
In 1979, the Taliban and the Soviet Union crossed swords. The Soviet Union had been trying to modernize Afghanistan, liberate women and curb religious superstition and oppression; the Taliban were the Islamic equivalent of Torquemada.
The Soviet Union was well on its way to finishing off the Taliban.
But the United States, like Great Britain before it, let its hostility toward socialism impede reasoned thought. First Carter, and then Reagan, aided the Islamic extremists in Afghanistan. Reagan upped the ante when he gave the Islamists shoulder-fired missiles which enabled them to bring down Soviet aircraft.
Actually, the United States even showed sympathy toward Islamic reactionaries in the days immediately following 9/11. While all United States’ flights were grounded for fear of another terrorist attack, several dozen members of Osama’s extended family were flown out of the country, no questions asked. Although we knew that Osama was sequestered in Tora Bora, we decided not to go into Tora Bora, and Osama got away.
Also, the New York Times reported, almost 20 years ago, that there was a surge in buying shorts on Airline stocks immediately before 9/11. People buy shorts when they expect a stock to tank. Obviously, fat cats in the know made a mint. Ever since I read that article, I have been waiting for an investigation and what it might uncover. Find the name of the man who bought the airline shorts and you can trace it to the gilded palaces of Emirates and Empires of Absolute Evil. Of course, maybe an investigation was done and the culprits were nabbed, but somehow I doubt it. If the culprits had been nabbed, the Saudi Royal family would have come crashing down like the Walls of Jericho.
I once worked in the World Trade Center. I worked on the 96th Floor of Tower Two in the Law firm of Hendler, Murray and Mait. If it hadn’t been for Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and our blind hatred of the Soviet Union, the World Trade Center would be standing today.
THE FAILURE OF AFGHANS TO RESIST THE TALIBAN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER WE SHOULD STAY THERE.
Biden said that American troops should not fight a battle that should have been fought by Afghan troops. His rhetoric apes the rhetoric of Americans who rightfully opposed our involvement in Vietnam. Although Biden is very adept at copying other peoples’ speeches (You may recall that he dropped out of the 1988 presidential race because he was caught plagiarizing a British politician) he is even shrewder at obscuring the truth.
We weren’t in Afghanistan for the sake of Afghanistan. Hence, whether Afghan troops resisted the Taliban is irrelevant. We were in Afghanistan because the Taliban was tied at the hip to Al Qaida and Al Qaida was responsible for 9/11. We were in that country because if we ran away from the fight in Afghanistan that would invite Islamic extremists to launch new attacks on the United States. For example, after Reagan withdrew from Beirut after our marine barracks were attacked, his cowardly decision incited a slew of violent incidents and the magnitude of the crimes generally increased.