| sep 25 2006 | | The young men die. | The young men go to war and die. The old men talk.
It has always been so and will continue until enough people ask why? There doesn’t seem to be any answer at the moment. All we get in Canada is Nitelight Harper and the failed Lothario from Nova Scotia repeating Dubya’s speeches word for word.
So why are we sending troops to Afghanistan? According to NATO's supreme commander, Marine Gen. Jim Jones, testifying before Congress last week. Afghanistan is "unfortunately well on its way" to becoming a "narco-state." Because of a shortage of local police, Karzai has approved a plan to allow local warlords—often traffickers themselves—to rebuild their private armies. This after U.N. officials spent the past three years trying to disband Afghanistan's irregular militias, which are accused of widespread human-rights abuses. Now the warlords can rearm with the government's blessing. Anywhere outside Kabul is bandit territory. That is some reconstruction we are carrying out there. So the troops are there to protect the opium production. What ever happened to the “war on drugs?”
Lets spell it out. America is running out of men. They are desperately short of troops in Iraq, so they need the British and Canadians and any body else stupid enough to go along with them, to commit troops to fill the gaping holes. Having sided with the drug producers they have lost all moral authority. The “war on terrorism” is creating freedom fighters who want to stop the occupation and destruction of their countries. Now you may say well that policy wasn’t very well thought out. That is until you consider that the policy may, all along, have been to create just such a situation so that the industrial military complex can crank into high gear and make more money than all previous conflicts combined. Far fetched you might say. Well consider the reality that we face. A war on drugs where we side with the drug producers. A war on terror starting at the time of 9/11 when there were a relatively few individuals without significant backing from the local populations, to now where there is a proliferation of terrorists and the local communities are behind them.
Follow the money. That is a good rule to find out the motivation for most things in life. Certainly it applies to the Middle East conflict.
Iraq and Afghanistan will become Americas modern day Vietnam. Canada has decided to volunteer for the same fate. Who cares? Not the people who are making the money. The longer it goes on and the more confused the issues become, the easier it is for them to get increases in funding. Scared of the terrorist threat? The average pleb will willingly give up social programmes and civil liberties for the security promises of the Politians.
The saddest comment I read was the father of a Canadian killed in Afghanistan replying to the call to get our troops out. He said pulling out now would mean his son’s death had been a waste. Well yes it had, but letting more fathers lose their sons in a senseless war, doesn’t make any logic. I’m excusing his muddled thinking due to grief. Incidentally the soldier died in a road accident when his vehicle turned over, not in combat.
In order for this occupation to end, it will mean changing the minds of the none to bright general public. The more i talk to an average Canadian the more disappointed I am in how ill read and ignorant they are on issues. Because they get their information from that fed to them in propaganda from the compliant media most Canadians are uninformed. The only thing they will react to is a huge increase in fatalities and injuries. Remember this is what brought the American public to end the Vietnam War. Forget the cost in lives; look at the profits that war brought in. Doesn’t anybody learn from history? Obviously not.
Young men go to war and die. Old men talk. Some people make lots of money.
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