On Friday, August 20, 2021, 02:04:40 a.m. CDT, V M <[email protected]> wrote: https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/08/20/op-ed-falling-hu-man-ity
This is extraordinarily cynical doublespeak, coming from an administration that – along with its predecessors – propped up an obviously untenable and atrociously corrupt regime. Even its own President wouldn’t fight for it, as we now know, after Ashraf Ghani showed up in the UAE (allegedly toting $169 million dollars in purloined state funds). VM,The US puppet regime in Afghanistan was one of the most corrupt govts in the world. Some claim that the Afghan govt was more corrupt than that of S. Vietnam at the time of its fall. National Public Radio (NPR) in the US had a program this morning detailing how the Afghan (Govt) military leaders were illiterate and needed help in claiming salaries for ghost solders they claimed to command. These very same govt commanders got offered payments and amnesty from the Taliban to abandon their posts. The Govt commanders then ordered their troops not to fight :-) In this regard, the Taliban may have set up a new method of defeating puppet govts. The final conclusion: “Old-fashioned imperialism, where faraway powers can prop up client states and help them gin up legitimacy through budgetary largesse and military training, has been in its death agonies for years. In the end, Afghanistan is going to have to be ruled by Afghans, and not according to the preferences of others…It almost certainly will not be pretty, and indeed may be painful, most of all perhaps for the women and girls of the country. But the old models don’t work anymore, if they ever did, and there is simply no avoiding this fact.” The US has also made it clear this week that anyone collaborating with the US is useful only when the US thinks it is. When it is time to pack up and go, translators/collaborators are dispensable and may or may not be left behind. One translator on today's NPR program emphasized that he was the person who had to determine who was the bad guy and had to be shot and who was to be left to escape. The locals memorized his face. US imperialist were dealt a severe blow this week, but the surprising thing is that the US puppet regime and the Taliban combined to hand the US its most embarrassing defeat of this century. . Mervyn
