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Extract:
Index on Afghanistan, December 2008 Timeline: “Graveyard of Empires”
1. Preface: Airbrushing History in Afghanistan
Stalin was not the only person to carry out historical revisionism . This ‘negationism’ also happened in Japan. Germany’s holocaust denial was a shocker. Iraq has been the new focus for “deceptive semantics .”
Afghanistan is also getting its fair share of revisionism. A CRS Report for Congress , written by Kenneth Katzman and dated 27 August 2003, airbrushed the history of wars in Afghanistan. “Afghanistan is a fragile state attempting, with substantial U.S. help, to stabilize after more than 22 years of warfare including a US-led war, that brought the current government to power.” The report continues “Afghan citizens are enjoying new personal freedoms that were forbidden under the Taliban.” A read of all the Index on Afghanistan research articles will show this to be false. It is no wonder US ‘intelligence’ is in trouble with such a “mistaken interpretations”, for which the US government is well known . Further, the Pentagon merges
public affairs with propaganda, assisted by the corporate media.
within the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee which does not bode well for historical integrity.
Obama has blamed Afghanistan and Pakistan, as being the ‘source’ of terrorism. He is wrong. This myopic AIPAC view, this disinformation ,needs immediate correction. Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories for 41 YEARS (some authorities say 51). This occupation is the ‘source’ of world terrorism. Now Obama has adopted Bush’s delusion of “progress” . The reality is Genocide
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at the Khyber Pass is historically reminiscent and symbolically represents the present failure.
‘Intelligence’ and Obama’s National Intelligence Team would do well to read David Loyn’s Butcher and Bolt (October 2008). The subtitle of this excellent book is “Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan. The book focuses on the 19th century British, 20th century Russian and present US war in Afghanistan. The book “provides the definitive analysis of the lessons these conflicts have for the present day.” The same tactical mistakes are being made. This is most obvious with the British and Russian efforts to control the mountainous passes into Afghanistan; in their attitudes towards the mujahideen and Afghan people; the lack of cultural understanding; the historical tradition of the Afghan loathing of foreigners in their country. Loren Jenkins
hauntingly recalls the Russian failures and notes the similarity with today’s Afghanistan.
The US/NATO war in Afghanistan relentlessly continues to be a disaster, now to be augmented by Gates’ call for more troops to support the so-called “War on Terror.” Despite warnings, Obama’s Pit Bull Parade seems intent on bloating the Pentagon budget during a severe global depression . The U.S. government’s ‘fear mongering’ elite are preparing, says the ‘Making America Safer’ corporate brigade, for US civil violence
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There is talk these days of (new buzz word) “disproportionate” bombing. Tell me, what is proportionate bombing? Are those civilians – women and children – murdered in the Gaza strip, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq or Afghanistan killed by “proportionate” bombs? It is the illegal and unjust wars that are disproportionate. Those who are silent about, or support these criminal actions are themselves criminals.
“Operation Legacy” is Bush’s attempt to airbrush his presidential years. The biggest lie these days is “PROGRESS”, One hears this word about every country where US policy FAILURE is endemic. “Progress in Afghanistan” is actually a “spiral downward.” The ongoing impasse
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Index
1. Preface: Airbrushing History in Afghanistan
2. Famine; Refugees, Women, Children & Health
3. Oil and Gas in Afghanistan & Pakistan
4. Aid in Afghanistan (Report, Articles)
5. Opium in Afghanistan
6. Corruption in Afghanistan (ICOS Report, Articles, Mullahs, Kidnapped)
7. The Taliban
8. The War in Afghanistan (Warzone Timeline / Suicide attacks)
9. Obama: (Cabinet: Ensuring Continuity; Flip Flops)
10. US in Afghanistan (Reports, Troop Surge & Viewpoints)
11. Military Industrial Complex, Contracts; Contractors
12. US-NATO (General, Transportation: The Khyber Pass)
13. US-NATO Coalition ((Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Rep., Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK)
14. Dead in Afghanistan
15. Human Rights (Airbrushing History, 9/11, April Gallop, “War on Terror,” US Soldiers, Cluster Bombs, Prisons, Detainees, Rendition, Guantanamo, Torture, War Crimes: mass graves, Cheney; The Root of the Problem; Gaza Timeline
16. References
