War in Afghanistan

The stated purpose of the invasion was to capture Osama bin Laden, destroy al-Qaeda, and remove the Taliban regime...

Operation 'enduring terror'

As of end 2008, the war has been unsuccessful in its primary purpose of capturing Osama bin Laden, while tensions have grown with regional ally Pakistan. U.S. policies in Afghanistan a decade and more ago in fact helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him. Osama bin Laden was a CIA tactician. Al-Qaeda was not destroyed, the initial attack removed the Taliban from power, but Taliban forces have since regained strength. The countryside is devastated and is currently experiencing a severe drought, with 7.5 million people threatened with starvation. The death and destruction wrought by the U.S. bombing campaign-and the cut off of food aid deliveries it has caused-have already killed hundreds and produced thousands more refugees scrambling to escape into Pakistan. How many innocent civilians died?

The real purpose of the invasion

War is unwinnable for NATO and U.S. so why are they still here? Many of the thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan are positioned in what experts say are large, permanent bases. The dramatic build-up of an indefinite Western military presence in Afghanistan has unsettled some regional powers, including Russia. Russia views the large and indefinite military build-up as a potential threat because Afghanistan's geographical location is a very strategic one. It's very close to three main world basins of hydrocarbons: Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Central Asia. Other observers have also noted that through a stronger military presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. may be seeking to strengthen its own position in the region to counter increasingly warm relations among India, China and Russia. Along with its proximity to the vast Central Asian and Caspian Sea energy sources and being in the midsts of the regional powers of India, China, and Russia, Afghanistan also holds strategic significance given its border with Iran. This "War on Terror" isn't about terrorism. I don't think that it is a war on Islam either. It is about resources, money and power. It is about bloody pipelines spreading from Afghanistan to Europe.

It is not about "enduring freedom", flowers or democracy. It is against humanity, against all of us.

Don't forget the heroin business

In 2000, the Taliban had issued a ban on opium production, which led to reductions in Pashtun Mafia opium production by as much as 90%. Soon after the 2001 U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan, however, opium production increased markedly. By 2005, Afghanistan had regained its position as the world’s #1 opium producer and was producing 90% of the world’s opium, most of which is processed into heroin and sold in Europe and Russia. Many suspected drug traffickers are now top officials in the Karzai government. "Afghan President" Hamid Karzai, the fashion queen aka Mr. Fashion, is portraited as responsible, Western-oriented leader who is symbolized by modern buildings sprouting up and new asphalt strips going off into the horizon. In fact he is a spineless, American butkissing, puppet "President" who cries for more and more invasion troops all the time. Hand-picked by the CIA, Karzai has never been more than "the mayor of Kabul," and his associates are highly corrupt, including his half-brother who has been accused of smuggling drugs in Kandahar.