We don't even have politicians like this Bill. I take a darker stance than he does in the video. Naomi Klein has described what I call 'slash and burn capitalism' and I believe we are acting in the knowledge that our interventions are about destruction. We keep corrupt governments in place all over and seem to have a strange practice of regretting stuff in hindsight that was palpably obvious before we get into the inevitable messes. Always good to see Dennis, but the points are deeper. Around 1840, 12,000 or so British troops went to Kabul 'on request' to 'establish order', more or less dying to a man after a deal with Muslim groups on safe passage turned out to be a trap. We were still bombing the place in reprisal for bandit raids into India in around 1920. The deep question is what 'imperialism' has been and is doing there - the military problems are well-known and thought to be intractable. India is putting massive 'aid' in, building a new highway into Iran, presumably to get stuff out or in. Maybe Vam could tell us more? The 'old', 'new', 'secret' reason for Afghanistan presence was to build an oil-gas pipeline, presumably to bring the stuff West (and hence not let it go more cheaply East?), but that went belly-up. My suspicion is Iran, and a convenient base to bring it to heel and maybe something to do with blitzing a presumed threat from Pakistan. I take statements about regime change and democracy with a pinch of salt. In 1956, Britain and France launched a great lie with Israel (Churchill had been making mutterings about letting the Jews sweep the Egyptians into the sea) to take over the Middle East, a plan only thwarted by US foreign policy masquerading as democratic decency (look what has happened since). I seriously think war is the underlying 'strategy'.
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