[Peace-discuss] excerpt from bill lind on afghanistan

[Laurie]

So to sum it up; "the more things change, the more they stay the same." And
that is the news of the day?

 

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Subject: [Peace-discuss] excerpt from bill lind on afghanistan

 

William Lind is a military strategist actually rather opposed to war,
particularly the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
He writes on LewRockwell.com this morning about the folly of the Obama
Administrations plans for 
"a major, long-term military and civilian program to reinvent Afghanistan
from one 
of the most backward, least developed nations to a relatively prosperous
democratic state."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind158.html

No surprises there.  The most interesting part of Lind's article (to me) is
the conclusion:

...Here we see how little "change" the Obama administration really
represents. The differences between the neo-liberals and the neo-cons are
few. Both are militant believers in Brave New World, a Globalist future in
which everyone on earth becomes modern. In the view of these ideologues, the
fact that billions of people are willing to fight to the death against
modernity is, like the river Pregel, an unimportant military obstacle. We
just need to buy more Predators. 

Meanwhile, the money is running out. The ancienregime syndrome looms ever
larger: we not only maintain but increase foolish foreign commitments, at
the same time that debt is piling up, those willing to lend become fewer and
we are reduced to debasing the currency. Historians have seen it all before,
many, many times. It never has a happy ending.

It appears Afghanistan will be the graveyard of yet another empire.

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