Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I am amazed that after having invaded and waged war in Afghanistan for 20 years, that now, it's as though it never happened. All we ever hear about Afghanistan are negative stories about what the Taliban is doing, the latest being that they are requiring female newscasters to cover their faces. 

Well, I agree that it's appalling, but before 2001, the Taliban didn't even allow female newscasters. They didn't allow female anything. So, at least they are not going back to that.  And remember: it's based on religion. They have their religion, and we have our religions. And one of our religions is our medical religion, and it required, not just women, but everyone to cover their face - with a Covid mask. And they might go back to it. They are saying that the case numbers are rising, even among the twice vaccinated and twice boosted. So, it may become mask-time again for all of us. 

Our media doesn't report anything positive about Afghanistan, but on the Taliban website, it's mostly positive news, for instance, they had an economic conference in Kabul with representatives from 60 countries attending. Obviously, the U.S. wasn't one of them, but how was that not news?

But, getting back to the Afghanistan War, George W. Bush started it, accusing the Taliban of collaborating with Osama bin laden to do 9/11. Not only did he not provide evidence that the Taliban was involved in 9/11, he didn't even provide evidence that Osama bin laden was involved. And ultimately, the only thing he ever provided was the phony Fatty bin laden tape, and that was two months after he launched the war. I'm sure the phony thing didn't even exist at the time he launched the war. So, even he could not have known about it at the time he gave the order to attack. Then, it was the Taliban's refusal to extradite OBL to us that became the trigger for the war, but we didn't have an extradition treaty with them. Our invasion of Afghanistan was just as criminal and illegal as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But, we act as though we never invaded another country in our entire history. 

But, I haven't gotten to the main point I want to make, which is: that no one has been held accountable for the disastrous and totally miscalculated war on Afghanistan. It should have started with criminal charges against Bush himself, and then moved on to others. But, no one has been charged, and no one will be. And you would think that, by now, some insider would have written an expose' about the disastrous U.S. war on Afghanistan, naming names and assigning blame. But, that hasn't happened, and if someone does write such a book, I predict that the media will ignore it, just like they ignored The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi about the disastrous war on Iraq.

So, the U.S. government, the U.S. Military, and the U.S. Media have moved on from the War in Afghanistan, and the only reporting that will be done about that country will be negative reports about the Taliban. Any and all good news about progress in that country will be ignored, but they'll hone in on any bad news or anything that is derogatory about the Taliban. The 20 years of war, the trillion dollars spent, the thousands of Americans killed, and for absolutely nothing, not to mention the much larger number of Afghans killed, it's all water under the bridge now. The U.S. has moved on and will not be accounting for what it did in Afghanistan.