The Fumbling of Afghanistan: Mere Incompetence or Throwing the Game?
Do we need a notarized confession from him, perhaps video-recorded? Do we need the same for the bribers? Do we need bank statements showing a wire-transfer for the bribe? Isn't the fact that the player chose to walk after catching the ball all the evidence we need to prove he was trying to lose the game on purpose? Do we need to prove why he would betray his team with what he received for the betrayal to know that he threw the game?
We have a different standard in politics than we do in sports for concluding a game is being thrown. The mid-wits among us chant the pejorative conspiracy theorist [*1] toward those doubting the good intentions of our leaders. What is obvious to most fans of a sport is not observed by most citizens of a country at war.
What is the standard we should apply to the artists formerly known as the United States regarding the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan circa August 15, 2021? Are the artists merely incompetent, or are they throwing the game? Do we need criminal confessions from public officials or a paper trail of funds exchanging hands to prove the game was thrown?
Most information we glean from the goings-on of Afghanistan comes from the media, who get their information from U.S. officials. Why would 75,000 vehicles and 200 aircraft be left behind only a few weeks away from their end-of-August deadline to conclude their twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan [*2]? Why would thousands of U.S. citizens be left behind? Why pull the troops out first and leave equipment and potential hostages for the Taliban to capture?
There are three possible explanations: (1) a fumble (incompetence), (2) a foreign power rules the U.S. and is throwing the game for its purpose, or (3) our handlers ruling within the U.S. are throwing the game for their purposes. Feel free to consider beyond the trinary I present here, but I believe these are the most reasonable explanations. In an effort to logically induce what's happening, let's explore the possibilities.
When the Soviet Union completed its exit of Afghanistan on February 15, 1989, after it began its incursion eleven years prior in 1978, its puppet regime ruled for about three more years [*3]. Only after the full collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 did the Taliban depose the Soviet puppet regime in charge.
Perhaps our U.S. handlers thought its Afghani regime, lead by President Arshaf Ghani, would last in a similar fashion, or for at least six months after the last U.S. troops were scheduled to leave in September 2021, thought the U.S. intelligence community [*4].
The modern U.S. is, ostensibly, more powerful than the 1989 Soviet Union was. According the Peterson Foundation, the U.S. spends $778 billion/year on defense, while the next eleven highest-spending countries combined muster $761 billion/year for their militaries [*5].
Considering the billions of dollars the U.S. spent on the Afghan military, perhaps the various U.S. defense appendages and "intelligence community" thought they'd have six months to slowly move the thousands or tens of thousands of U.S. citizens living there (the Pentagon doesn't know [*6]), as well as military equipment.
Of course, they should have known better. Joe Biden's handlers propped him up on August 16, 2021 to say:
U.S. public opinion has been against war in Afghanistan for over ten years now. It's so bad, it seems most polling agencies stopped measuring it, or at least stopped making results readily available, after 2012 [*7].... But I always promised the American people that I will be straight with you. The truth is: This did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.So what’s happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight.If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. We spent over a trillion dollars. We trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong — incredibly well equipped — a force larger in size than the militaries of many of our NATO allies.
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| Screenshot from Infogalactic. |
This is unfortunate for the $778 billion/year U.S. defense industry. How are the contractors and suppliers of weapons and equipment going to maintain their jobs and, more importantly, power if the American people no longer have a spirit for empire [*8]? If the American military isn't ready to occupy and conquer, how will our rulers manipulate and control the nations of the world? After all, nations obey the U.S. because of what it could do more than it does. And nations obeying is what brings our rulers their true power.
Would Americans have objected if our fake president ordered a couple thousand American troops to control Afghanistan to safely remove all U.S. citizens and then destroy or bring back the 600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, and 200 aircraft there? If the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan after the equipment and U.S. citizens were removed, would the majority of Americans care that the Taliban recaptured their country?
Imagine breaking up with a certain kind of girlfriend, as many of us have had in the past (hopefully not a wife) that responds by slowly ratcheting up the drama, making your life as miserable as possible. She ratchets down the drama as you walk back the breakup. She's made the experience exceptionally dramatic, perhaps with threats to poison relationships with your friends and family or by dragging out a fight over post-breakup assets. You're being conditioned to tolerate her awful behavior to avoid a looming breakup that would, at least in the short-run, be far uglier.
Just as the girlfriend is trying to make the breakup as ugly as possible to prevent a breakup, perhaps, our handlers in control of the U.S. military are playing the same game to sour the public's taste for ending empire.
In our current reality, the U.S. military is egging the Taliban on to take hostages. Why else would they be so inept [*9]?
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| Piece by Matt Vespa on Townhall, published August 24, 2021 |
If the Taliban is smart, they won't take hostages, as it provides an excuse for the U.S. to disrupt Taliban reign, and, we assume, establishing and maintaining reign is the goal. But, should the Taliban want to take hostages, the conditions sure seem ripe for it.
To those paying attention to leftists news sites, for once it seems acceptable to criticize our handlers' puppet-in-chief in regards to Afghanistan [*10]? Why is that?
Note this curious anomaly I examined in more detail in an earlier piece [*11]. Harvard's Shorestein Media Center analyzed the media's tone in coverage of President Trump in his first 100 days in office. Note how skewed the coverage was.
Note how out-of-line it was compared to prior U.S. presidents.
Most see President Trump as far more of what we'd call "anti-war" compared to any other modern U.S. president. Despite (1) the media being demonstrably a leftwing enterprise and (2) "anti-war" being understood among the general public as a more-leftist position, note how the media inverted their coverage on one particular issue: Trump's decision to attack Syria with missiles in response to what was, ostensibly, a, dubious [*12], nonsensical chemical-weapon attack Syria launched on its people.
Control of media assets by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the U.S. is a matter of, mostly, public record, as confessed by then-CIA Director William Colby in 1975 congressional testimony [*13]:
But, surely, the voters would eject Joe Biden, you might say. Why bungle an operation so bad as to risk being voted out of office?U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Otis Pike: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation or American journal?CIA Director William Colby: We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.Pike: Do you have people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?Colby: This I think gets into the kind of uh, kind of details I’d like to get into at an executive session.Pike: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services, AP and UPI?Colby: Well again, I think we are getting into the kind of detail, Mr. Chairman, I’d prefer to handle in an executive session.
Certainly in 2020, and arguably prior, U.S. intelligence agencies (or their handlers) did to Americans what they did to people around the world, at least, 81 times [*14].
Nonetheless, the wicked seek consent [*15]. Empire by deception is far easier to maintain than empire by conquest [*16]. Your support for what they do or want you to do is important. And, the media's role in our post-democratic era is more about winning your mind and soul than your vote [*17].
Do you think the fumbling of Afghanistan is mere incompetence, or is it part of the plan? Like the girlfriend souring your attempt at a breakup, are you being conditioned to reject U.S. troop withdrawal and tolerate empire?
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FOOTNOTES
[*1] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-epistemology-of-conspiracy-from.html
[*2] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/worse-thought-taliban-seized-75000-vehicles-600000-weapons-200-aircraft-afghanistan-leftover-biden-admin/
[*3] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1028472005/afghanistan-conflict-timeline
[*4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghan-government-could-collapse-six-months-after-u-s-withdrawal-new-intelligence-assessment-says-11624466743
[*5] https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison
[*6] https://nypost.com/2021/08/19/pentagon-doesnt-know-how-many-americans-are-in-afghanistan/
[*7] https://infogalactic.com/info/International_public_opinion_on_the_war_in_Afghanistan#cite_note-War_and_Sacrifice_in_the_Post-9.2F11_Era-74
[*8] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-glue-of-democratic-empires.html
[*9] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/08/24/theres-something-off-about-the-aircraft-in-the-defense-departments-tweet-about-afghan-evacuations-n2594632
[*10] I won't retread my thoughts on the 2020 U.S. "election," but, for those who haven't read them yet or are curious, you can read them here https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/01/planning-for-post-democratic-divided.html and here https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-measure-of-cowardice-and-sociopathy.html
[*11] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-role-of-media-in-post-democratic-era.html
[*12] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/25/chemical-weapons-watchdog-opcw-defends-syria-report-after-leaks
[*13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGxQdc0Kg8
[*14] This course is taught by Hugh Wilford, available on the Great Courses and via Amazon, who gives a clinical and overall favorable take toward the CIA. The referenced-page is screenshot and taken from his companion course book. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Agency-A-History-of-the-CIA-Audiobook/1629976563
[*15] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/06/why-does-evil-seek-consent.html
[*16] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-would-you-know-if-world-was-ruled.html
[*17] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-role-of-media-in-post-democratic-era.html
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