{"id":192097,"date":"2021-08-30T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=192097"},"modified":"2021-08-23T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T06:45:08","slug":"us-afghanistan-august-15-2021-eight-conclusions-and-the-mean-words-what-was-it-we-said-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/us-afghanistan-august-15-2021-eight-conclusions-and-the-mean-words-what-was-it-we-said-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Afghanistan August 15, 2021: Eight Conclusions and the Mean Words \u201cWhat Was It We Said All the Time\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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17 Aug 2021 – <\/em>Back then, after September 11, 2001, in Washington and New York, everybody talked about who<\/em> could have done it, how<\/em> they did it and with what<\/em> means. The only thing never brought to the fore was: WHY<\/em> would somebody want to do something like 9\/11 to the United States of America?<\/p>\n

By not asking the Why<\/em> question, the US could stand as the innocent<\/em> victim of cataclysmic violence. It would not have to do any soul searching and therefore no change of its global militarist policy. 9\/11 was not a response to US foreign policy \u2013 but it needed a response. The world felt sympathy for the American suffering \u2013 much more so than for the suffering and deaths in other countries around the world.<\/p>\n

The fact is that the 9\/11 attack targeted the US\u2019 global finance-capital <\/em>(World Trade Center), its global military<\/em> (Pentagon) and its political<\/em> (White House, however not hit) centres \u2013 not a school, train station or energy facility. The significant symbolic meaning of these targets could have stimulated intellectually decent causality discussions \u2013 and so too if Osama bin Laden\u2019s writings about US global dominance and destruction since Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been taken into account.<\/p>\n

In short, might makes right \u2013 so what were there to discuss? By tabooing the Why?<\/em> \u2013 the George W. Bush administration\u2019s response<\/em> could then be made completely out of proportion to the 9\/11 suffering.<\/p>\n

If you wonder what I mean by out of proportion, the Brown University \u201cCosts of War\u201d project tells you what the US has done in response to max 2500 Americans being killed on 9\/11 during the now 20-year long Global War On Terror, GWOT, that it started right after 9\/11:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most likely, the last 20 years of this mind-boggling and disturbing death and destruction in Afghanistan could have been avoided \u2013 that is, if the US did not have an unchangeable plan for that primitive mass-destructive revenge. If the Bush administration had negotiated with the Taliban and had gotten Osama bin Laden out of Afghanistan, there did not need to be a war since no one involved in 9\/11 was an Afghan. He would have been on trial somewhere and found guilty or not guilty.<\/p>\n

As you may remember, the Taliban were willing to deliver bin Laden if the US would provide documentation that Osama was<\/em> involved in the 9\/11 attacks \u2013 here The Guardian\u2019s report of October 14, 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But back then \u2013 like today with the genocide accusation industry against China \u2013 the US doesn\u2019t believe in documenting anything. What it says, with God on its side, is by its own definition simply true. Bush \u2013 who is probably the world\u2019s largest but non-convicted war criminal because of Afghanistan and Iraq \u2013 refused to produce any documentation \u2013 most likely because there was none and the official truth about 9\/11 leaves too many other questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

And \u2013 remember \u2013 the Mujahedin before the Taliban \u2013 were strongly supported by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom because they fought against the Soviet invasion and occupation<\/a> from December 1979 until Gorbachev announced in mid-1987 that the Soviet Union would withdraw. Here is a quite telling 1987 documentation with President Reagan telling you all about the US support for the Mujahidin as the voice of the Afghan people:<\/p>\n

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