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

 Afghanistan has fallen completely off the news radar. We fought a war there for 20 years, and now, it's like we didn't. And there is no investigation of what happened in Afghanistan. No one is being held to account. Imagine if you were the loved one of an American who got killed or maimed there. How would you feel about the erasing of this God-awful war from the national consciousness? 

Do you think there is going to be a monument built in Washington to the Americans who paid the ultimate price in Afghanistan? I don't think so. 

I still glance at the Taliban website. Today, they pointed out the suffering of the Afghan people is being worsened by the sanctions still being imposed by the United States on Afghanistan. They pointed out that the Doha Agreement, which the US signed, laid out that there would be no sanctions, that Afghanistan would be entitled to full international recognition, participation, and eligibility for loans, etc., which has not happened. 

So, our news outlets ignore Afghanistan, and while I'm sure the CIA has spies within the country. I don't think we have any plans of attacking again, considering how bad it worked out for us the last time. Maybe a future generation of Americans will want to try to fuck with Afghanistan again, but not today's. 

Still, our resignation to having been defeated in Afghanistan is amazing because we went there saying that the Taliban was involved in 9/11; that they supported Osama bin laden and Al Qaeda, that they were knowingly a part of the plot to attack America. So, if we really believed that, how could we ever let them prevail? How could we possibly forgive 9/11? How could we let 9/11 perpetrators off the hook?

I think we know very well that the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. I think our willingness to accept the existing situation in Afghanistan proves it. I think we know that the puppet Afghan government, the one that we set up, where we turned the spring and let our stooges run around and do their thing until they needed another cash infusion- that's all over, and it ain't coming back. And I don't think anyone in the U.S. government wants to talk about our 20 year debacle in Afghanistan. I think they want to shut the door on it for good. 

However, if they were going to talk about 9/11- if they were backed into a corner and forced to- I think they would admit that the Taliban wasn't involved in 9/11, at least not directly. Otherwise, how could they tolerate the current reality? How could they let a government get away with killing 3000 Americans? 

So, we know they didn't do it. But, think about what it means for the war because our ENTIRE justification for invading, attacking, and taking over that country was: 9/11. 

So, now do you understand why we don't want to talk about the Afghanistan War? We can't talk about it because if we talked about it, eventually it would come to admitting that our war was illegal, which of course it was. 

The war on Afghanistan, which was based entirely on lies, was a criminal enterprise by the United States. And all the deaths, including all the children's deaths, and all the maiming and all the suffering, are on us.  

And what about our compassion for the Afghans? Oh, that was just temporary, and now it's gone. We've moved on. Now, it's the Ukrainians we feel compassionate about. So, we have pumped over $100 billion into that war, urging the Ukrainians to fight. Instead of telling them to negotiate for the best deal they could, and be willing to accept the loss of Crimea and the Donbas permanently, we told them that they could beat the Russians militarily and get it all back. The result is over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed; Ukraine is being utterly destroyed, and very likely, the worst is yet to come.  But don't worry: it won't go on forever. That war will end too. And when it does, whatever is left of Ukraine will be be built up again from scratch, on the backs of American taxpayers. And, with no lessons learned, the deranged militarism of the United States will continue unabated until the whole evil system collapses.