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

The Taliban took its 11th provincial capitol today, and you realize it means that they just walked in and took it because it was there for the taking- or just about. And now, pathetically, we are launching air strikes just to destroy the equipment we left behind. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rapid-taliban-advances-afghanistan-us-162629022.html

To say that the Afghanistan War is ending badly for the U.S. is a gross understatement. The families of every American man and woman who got killed in Afghanistan should file a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government. But as for criminal prosecutions, there won't be any. There weren't any for Vietnam except William Callee who got a mere three years for the premediated murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and even that got commuted to house arrest by Richard Nixon.  For Afghanistan, the prosecutions should start with George W. Bush, who should get no less than life imprisonment. The only hope now is that the International Criminal Court will find the U.S. guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan for bombing wedding parties and whatnot. But, the reality is that the whole war was a crime. The U.S. attack and invasion of Afghanistan was an act of unmitigated evil. It was illegal and unjustifiable under international law. There was very little public outcry against it at the time because Americans were seized with the desire for revenge for 9/11. Of course, all our claims about that were utter lies, culminating in the ridiculous video of Fatty bin laden. The U.S. government committed 9/11, just as the U.S. government killed John F. Kennedy. But, even if it were true that Osama bin laden was responsible, the war on Afghanistan was unjustifiable. It wouldn't lessen our guilt a bit even if the official story of 9/11 were true. Of course, it's not true, and that only makes the whole monstrous war all the worse. We are the United States of Atrocia.