Four US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
by Ian Mosley
Once more it’s time for us to stroll down memory lane and take a peek at America’s “Forgotten War”–the low-level guerrilla insurgency which has been flickering in Afghanistan for the past five years, ever since the 2001 U. S. invasion. Remember that “famous victory?” That “splendid little war” as they used to say in Victorian times? Remember George Dubya swaggering and preening and boasting about how he had done what no one from Alexander the Great had been able to do, that he had conquered Afghanistan? Remember the cheering neocons cackling about their “victory” while Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack thought he was really doing something to avenge 911? Remember the happy talk from the beautifully coiffed and tailored talking heads on Fox News?
Well, what goes around, comes around. Five years later the Northern Alliance gangs who won the war for us have disintegrated and the Karzai regime is the usual sink of Asiatic corruption, as his officials cruise around Kabul in their armored limousines with their whores and Halliburton contracts in their pocket. Meanwhile, the rest of Afghanistan is mired in violence, misery, poverty and chaos. (more…)