[Peace-discuss] excerpt from bill lind on afghanistan

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I think that some quite unseemly un-sameness is around that unmarked 
curve, just ahead.

Of course, that was pointed out by Ibn Khaldun some 600 years ago, and 
no doubt the idea was by
no means original with that great historian studier of rhymes.

Laurie wrote:
>
> 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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> Wayne Johnson
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> 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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