The Reality of Afghanistan for Our Soldiers. . .

This is the reality for American soldiers day after day in exotic Afghanistan:

It is a place most of them have not seen before, nor like any other desert or mountains, including those in the American Southwest and Mexico of which many of them come and are familiar. -It is the place of a language most of them do not speak, nor have even before heard. The fear of  gangland type killing is not like anything Detroit or any other American city offers.  It is the place of a social order most of them do not understand. The politics of revenge there are palpable daily.

 

American soldiers here are on a mission from a continuous hell.  Muslim fanatics have already won, just as surely as Christian fanatics that brought us here have lost.  Hopefully, it won't take a long time before the deluded conservatives in American government figure this out.

So, be damned the attempt to impose some 'notion of democracy' on the Afghans- they are not even sure that's who they are. They work against America at every turn. They hate us. They kill our soldiers because our soldiers kill them. They just plain don't want us there! So why are we there? It is because of the arrogance of greedy, warmongering American psuedo-intellectual advocates of hegemony, and the hubris and stupidity of those who have enthusiastically waged this faraway war for them. Sadly, those too have been persuaded to insidiously and calculatingly wage war as well on their own people's 'notion of democracy'.

The ancient Greeks, the British and Russia have learned the folly of trying to subjugate Afghanistan.  This is a lesson of history.  Why can't we learn this?

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