When was the last time we won a war?
by Justin
Raimondo, September 24, 2012
"
While no one was looking, the US lost the war in Afghanistan. The
announcement
that joint operations involving US/NATO forces and Afghan military and police
personnel will cease — “temporarily” — went down with a whimper, not a bang.
Since the
whole
purpose of our continued presence in that country is supposedly to train the
forces of Afghan “
President”
Hamid Karzai, the entire rationale for the war just fell apart, and isn’t it
funny — as in funny-weird, rather than funny-ha-ha — that nobody noticed?
Well, not really: we’re in campaign mode, and neither major party
presidential candidate is
much
interested in the subject of a war we’ve been fighting for over a decade, at a
cost measured in the trillions (aside from the incalculable human misery).....
To top it off, we’re out of money — and the US economy, the engine and motive
power of the Last Superpower’s alleged invincibility, is showing signs of
structural
instability.
If the whole edifice collapses tomorrow, who will be surprised?
As Washington’s lords and ladies bask in the
unreal glory of America’s
imperial delusion, and look forward to yet another exciting coronation ceremony
this winter,
the peasants with pitchforks are gathering in the shadow of the
castle, their voices rising above the ordinary din generated by our chattering
classes. The American people are
waking
up to the reality, even if our elites are not, and it is a rude awakening
indeed.
Fired,
foreclosed,
and
fed
up, they have had it up to here with the pretensions of our would-be
Napoleons and world policemen in both parties. They don’t understand
why we’re
shipping billions — billions!
— of our tax dollars overseas, to Libya, where they’re killing our diplomats, to
Egypt, where they’re trying to burn down our embassy, and to Israel, where
they’re trying to
blackmail
us into fighting yet another war on their behalf......"