The disaster that is Afghanistan

 

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As the tragedy at Kabul airport unfolds each day, we would do well to remember how this whole catastrophe came about. In 2001, two men conspired with a few others, to bring about regime change in Afghanistan. Their cover story was to remove  Al-Qaida from the country and to ensure that Afghanistan could not provide a sanctuary for "terrorists". However the real reason was and always has been to remove the Taliban from power and replace their regime with a regime more friendly to the west and particularly to the United States. Regime change is illegal under International Law as documented in the Nuremburg Principles. Those two conspirators were George Bush, then President of the United States and Anthony Charles Lynton Blair the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This brought about an illegal war based on lies and deceit, in the same way that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi regime was removed from office later in 2003 today, George "Dubya" Bush, from his home in   the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, watches as others attempt to resolve the chaos brought about in that wretched country and which has see the deaths of thousands of Afghani's and hundreds of service men and women, both American and British together with other NATO personnel.

After a succession of Presidents and Prime Ministers, the latest contributions to this illegal war, come about from Bozo Johnson and Joe Biden. In the case of President Biden, he inherits a strategy/policy thrust upon the region by his predecessor, Donald John Trump, who's excursions into foreign policy can at best be described as calamitous. 

However, Biden manages to generate hostility from all sides following his ill-fated speech to the American people on the 16th August, attempting to justify and defend his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. During the course of this oration, aimed directly at his American audience, Biden distorts history to claim that "America should not be involved in other nations civil wars". This was no civil war. This was a war resulting from an illegal conspiracy fuelling the ego's of two men. This was a war brought about by a majority of the Afghan people, seeking to resist invading forces and return the country to their previous administration as they have done to successive invaders over hundreds of years. 

Biden is labeled as an appeaser who "makes Neville Chamberlain look like the new Winston Churchill." Not to be outdone with criticism, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair wades in with his usual two pence worth of sarcastic nonsense, accusing President Joe Biden of an "imbecilic" decision to pull out US troops, adding, "As the leader of our country when we took the decision to join America in removing the Taliban from power, and who saw the high hopes we had of what we could achieve for the people and the world". Even now, Blair refuses to accept, or even admit, that the tragedy at Kabul airport today, the destruction and havoc of the last 20 years and the deaths of hundreds of American, British and NATO service personnel, together with thousands of Afghan's civilians, are the direct result of the gung ho actions and decisions that he and Bush put in place back in 2001.

The Afghan people do not deserve such disregard and have sent the America and the west a clear message. "Like other countries, we will have our problems, but they will be our problems, not yours".

We may not like the Taliban in much the same way as we do not like the Saudi Arabian regime or the Russian regime. However the fact remains that Afghanistan is the county of the Afghan people. It is not a suburb of Los Angeles or London.