Posted on 08/16/2021 5:12:27 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Even now, Washington seems completely out of touch with events on the ground in Afghanistan. Its intelligence officers said the Taliban could take Kabul within 90 days. That was four days ago. They know nothing. One gets the impression of a confused, decaying empire looking with bamboozlement upon even those parts of the earth it rules.
But above all of that, above even the political and military incoherence of the American empire, there is the corrosive cultural dynamic. This might just be the most important factor in the Afghan humiliation – the fact that the US, and the West more broadly, clearly lacks the cultural resources necessary for a clash of civilisations. This wasn’t just a territorial battle, a fight over the land of Afghanistan. It was also a cultural clash. It was a war between one side that has very strong beliefs and is more than willing to die for them, and another side that doesn’t know what it stands for anymore and would rather avoid risk and self-sacrifice if at all possible. I’ll leave you to decide which of these is the Taliban, and which the US.
This was always the West’s problem in Afghanistan: it lacked faith in the very values it claimed to be delivering to that benighted country. We will liberate women from life under the burqa, Western officials said. But isn’t it ‘Islamophobic’ to criticise the burqa, or any other Islamic practice for that matter? Our elites have insisted for years that it is. We will replace your intolerant Islamist system with a civil society fashioned by clever professors, the West promised. But isn’t it judgemental and possibly a tad racist – certainly an offence against the ideology of multiculturalism – to imply that Western democracy is superior to Islamist theocracy?
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Yes, it is.
The bus is speeding towards the edge of the cliff and nobody is driving. Is this country seriously going to allow that?
Author of this piece should be BRENDAN O’NEILL..... Not Brenda. Thank you.
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Why would any nation ever agree to be a US ally in wartime? If an election goes south, our allies are screwed.
Notice thread below says Uzbekistan claims it shot down a military plane fleeing Afghanistan. Once that happens with civilians on board, the airport can’t be a good place for the hundreds of hostages who are desperate to flee. What then, Biden?
That did not happen in Saigon. Just helicopters leaving, not shot down.
Yes, this country IS going to allow that, as long as the proles get their bread and circuses .
See new tagline.
Hell yes it’s worse.
Nothing to compare in my lifetime.
“ The bus is speeding towards the edge of the cliff and nobody is driving. Is this country seriously going to allow that?”
This is a country that doesn’t believe in itself or it’s “system”. An empty shell where the corrupt take whatever they want of it. There’s no way to extricate The country from its own corruption using normal processes of government.
It isn’t so much that it will be allowed, it’s more that it’s a runaway train that has no means to stop.
He nails it in several areas- the one that carries the greatest price- we don’t believe in our values anymore- just words.
For anybody who voted Biden/DemonRAT or stayed home last election, The shitshow we are witnessing now is YOUR fault!
"American officials convincing absolutely nobody with their unhinged claims that the 'mission has been successful' (in Anthony Blinken’s words). It’s clear for all to see, commentators insist: Kabul in 2021 is a replay of Saigon in 1975. America humiliated, its enemies ascendant."
'mission has been successful'!? Hell's bells, that is delusional.
And it’s only just begun.
Agree...just look at them at Sam’s club
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