Posted on Wednesday, September 06 at 10:31 by rearguard
The Taliban is becoming increasing popular due to the West's failure to tackle Afghans' "extreme poverty", according to the study for the Senlis Council think-tank.
Once again, Afghanistan is proving to be stronger than those occupying it.
The anti-taliban invasion did have a chance at winning the hearts and minds of the people at first but as always they pissed away their chances chasing shadows instead of taking care of the people they were allegedly there to save.
Go figure.
--- "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
The main reason why invasions always fail is because dropping bombs on people and ordering them about at the point of a gun tends to make them really upset.
Another reason why the invasion never had any chance for success even before it was launched is because the publicly stated reasons for the invasion were all lies, starting with 9/11 which was an inside job that had nothing to do with Afghanistan.
The psychopathic backers of the invasion had only the intention of helping themselves to the spoils of war, they never had any real intention of helping the Afghan people - and why should they?
Whatever help that was given, was done exclusively for PR reasons alone (eg really nice things, such building schools and the like). The few Afghans that may have been fooled by the initial PR are not being fooled anymore, as a result the resistance continues to grow. The knee jerk response will be to use more force (which is exactly what we're seeing at the moment), perhaps including brutal large scale massacres such as was done with Iraq's Fallujah. More force however, will only make the locals more determined to kick out the invaders.
Afghanistan is a big mess, but anyone who even remotely studied history and warfare should have known this well before the invasion had even started. In fact, many people raised serious concerns that an invasion was destined to fail, but our dysfunctional MSM almost exclusively broadcast views that were in support of an invasion.
The thing is, now that we all know that the Afghanistan "mission" is a massive failure, why are we still there? What more can be done to reverse the obvious trend? We know that killing more Afghans will only make them fight back all the harder. We know that the psychopaths who are in charge have no intention of helping the Afghan people, so having these criminal lunatics stay in power will only make things worse.
I KNOW, I saw this BBC article on this 'nice new school' for girls the British were guarding on opening day.
It was a pile of homemade clay bricks stacked together. It had been built for 100,000 US.
You can't build a proper school for 100,000! What a joke!
Everywhere you go in Afghanistan, the people ask you, 'where? where is the foreign aid to help us rebuild our country? Where?'
Sorry, we need to uh, get this pipeline going smoothly first. After that is done, I'm sure we can chuck you some change from the Exxon-Mobile coffee fund.
--- “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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The anti-taliban invasion did have a chance at winning the hearts and minds of the people at first but as always they pissed away their chances chasing shadows instead of taking care of the people they were allegedly there to save.
Go figure.
---
"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
Another reason why the invasion never had any chance for success even before it was launched is because the publicly stated reasons for the invasion were all lies, starting with 9/11 which was an inside job that had nothing to do with Afghanistan.
The psychopathic backers of the invasion had only the intention of helping themselves to the spoils of war, they never had any real intention of helping the Afghan people - and why should they?
Whatever help that was given, was done exclusively for PR reasons alone (eg really nice things, such building schools and the like). The few Afghans that may have been fooled by the initial PR are not being fooled anymore, as a result the resistance continues to grow. The knee jerk response will be to use more force (which is exactly what we're seeing at the moment), perhaps including brutal large scale massacres such as was done with Iraq's Fallujah. More force however, will only make the locals more determined to kick out the invaders.
Afghanistan is a big mess, but anyone who even remotely studied history and warfare should have known this well before the invasion had even started. In fact, many people raised serious concerns that an invasion was destined to fail, but our dysfunctional MSM almost exclusively broadcast views that were in support of an invasion.
The thing is, now that we all know that the Afghanistan "mission" is a massive failure, why are we still there? What more can be done to reverse the obvious trend? We know that killing more Afghans will only make them fight back all the harder. We know that the psychopaths who are in charge have no intention of helping the Afghan people, so having these criminal lunatics stay in power will only make things worse.
It was a pile of homemade clay bricks stacked together. It had been built for 100,000 US.
You can't build a proper school for 100,000! What a joke!
Everywhere you go in Afghanistan, the people ask you, 'where? where is the foreign aid to help us rebuild our country? Where?'
Sorry, we need to uh, get this pipeline going smoothly first. After that is done, I'm sure we can chuck you some change from the Exxon-Mobile coffee fund.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”