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

The Taliban is claiming to have killed 4 Americans in the last two days. But, our media is not reporting it, and I hope it isn't true.

But, our media isn't reporting anything about Afghanistan. It's all gone quiet again. We're hearing as much about Afghanistan as we are about Jeffrey Epstein, which is to say, nothing. He died; the peace talks failed; and that's it. It's an eerie situation.

But, we really do have a cultural problem in this country. That's because most Americans don't realize the magnitude of the killing spree that their government went on following 9/11. But, even when you tell them about it, that millions have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, etc., many of them just shrug. They really don't care. But, how could they not care? 

And they may make excuses for it, such as citing 9/11.

I really believe that a major purpose of 9/11 was to provide a pretext to attack Afghanistan. There is no doubt that military preparations to attack Afghanistan started before 9/11.  But, the whole 9/11 excuse to attack Afghanistan is completely vacuous. There were no Afghans involved. Osama bin laden wasn't an Afghan, if you believe he did it. Of course, I do not. 

But, let's say he got the idea there in Afghanistan. So what? The next thing he had to do was call Mohammed Atta who was in Germany, who had to call his Saudi buddies in Saudi Arabia. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. I think there was an Egyptian or two in there, but there were no Afghans. That Osama bin laden was in Afghanistan when he hatched the idea, if you believe it, is irrelevant. He could have been anywhere. Afghanistan didn't lend anything to it except that he breathed Afghan air when he thought about it. And the idea that we need to monitor every square foot of Afghanistan in order to be safe is insane. There is nothing anybody in Afghanistan can do to hurt us except think about it and lip-flap it. It would be one thing if there was no place else in the world that they could do that. But, there are all kinds of other "stans" where they can do it. And, they can do it in countries that aren't "stans." Focusing on and fretting about Afghanistan just because of 9/11 is, as I keep saying, insane. And that would be true even if the official story of 9/11 was completely true, but, in fact, it is complete and total horse shit. 

So, when I hear people babbling about it, including the Babbler in Chief, that Afghanistan is the hotbed of terror, and we need to "keep a presence there" permanently, I am reminded of how insane, how totally mentally incompetent this country really is.