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

Here is the Saigon moment in Kabul.

People are acting like this is a catastrophe. No! It's a blessing. Because: it was inevitable that this was coming. And, if it took months of fighting to get to this, then that many more people would have died. I'm talking about everybody involved who would have died: Afghan government soldiers, Taliban soldiers, and who knows how many civilians. Now, all those people are going to continue living, and the Afghan people can put this God-awful war behind them and get started rebuilding their country. 

Granted, it's a catastrophe for the reputation and standing of the United States in the world. It's a tremendous embarrassment for us, and awfully humiliating. But, who cares about that when lives have been saved? What was expected to take 6 months of war happened in less than a week, and with very few lives lost. If that isn't a blessing, what the hell is?

And the truth is that nothing could mitigate the atrocity of the illegal and criminal war we started in Afghanistan in 2001. It was evil from the commencement and based totally on lies. There is NO justifying such a war. I don't care how many girls' schools you build.

How are we ever going to compensate them for what we did to them? If we gave them our whole national treasury it wouldn't be enough. Oh, I forgot. There's nothing but debts in the national treasury. 

But, I agree with those who say that the U.S. stock market should crash tomorrow because of this. I'm not saying it will, but it should. That's because U.S. economic strength has been an illusion for a long time, but now, U.S. military strength is being exposed as the canard that it is too.  The only thing we've got going for us militarily is the ability to do Shock and Awe, and there is only so much of that you can do. And despite doing a horrific amount of it in Afghanistan, we still got our butts handed to us.  

What about the families of the Americans who got killed in Afghanistan, and the ones who got maimed? I think they should sue the U.S. government for wrongful deaths and wrongful injuries. I hate to make their suffering worse, but they and their loved ones really did suffer and die for nothing.  Absolutely nothing. And nothing could ever change that. You can no more change the reality of that than you can bring the dead back to life.