This blog and my corresponding website http://warisimmoral.com will continue, as I hope that it will serve as an inspiration and catalyst for others working for the military ("uniformed" or civilian) to abandon their support of the immoral institution known as the United States Department of Defense. What follows is an introduction and link to an article exposing the false reasoning used to rationalize why "coalition forces" are justified in occupying Afghanistan.
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The Myth of Afghan Terrorism
In his speech about Afghanistan, given at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on 4 September 2009, British prime minister Gordon Brown argued that this is a war to protect people across the West from terrorism.
It is ‘not just a mission to protect the British people from the threat of terrorism but an international mission involving over 40 countries’, he said, ‘because we all face the same threat. We’ve all seen the reality of this threat: in Bali, Madrid, Mumbai, and of course on the streets of London four years ago.’ (1)
Raising the spectre of recent terrorist attacks to justify the war in Afghanistan is highly disingenuous - because Afghan terrorism is a myth. No Afghan citizens have been involved in any of the terror attacks mentioned by Brown. And even where non-Afghans have allegedly received funding or training from inside Afghanistan in order to carry out terrorist attacks, their drive and motivation has come from elsewhere.
A brief overview of recent attacks suggests that, contrary to what Brown says, the problem of contemporary terrorism will not be resolved by occupying Afghanistan.
Continue reading as Patrick Hayes details the lack of Afghan involvement in each of the referenced terrorist incidents @ http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7350/
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So, what's next? Am guessing this means you are also "officially unemployed?" I don't suppose there are "unemployment" benefits?
ReplyDelete“Unemployed” is a much better condition than “enslavement.” Not all of us need a nanny state caretaker.
ReplyDeleteWell, consitering the fact that many people (most people to include our government and all) totally misunderstand that Afghanistan isn't exactly a totally functioning country and never has been I find the "Myth of Afghan Terror" very interesting. Sure thing that there were no Afghan's invalved in any of those acts of terror, but that doesn't mean terrorists and a whole lotta bad dudes head to that barren land to hide out, and given that there isn't a whole lot of country togethness there anyway it really tends to be using a piece of land for a battle ground rather than actually fighting against or in a country.
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