How Afghanistan Defeated and Destroyed America
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America’s 15-year occupation of Afghanistan has, in the end,
hurt America almost as much as the land devastated by carpet bombings
and drone attacks. The real story of the War on Terror was how America
restructured her own government to manage drug operations on an
unprecedented scale, protect international criminals, and how the almost
endless supply of unaccounted for cash bought the Bush presidency and
helped bring about not just an American police state, but one openly
controlled by organized crime.
After 9/11 America went into Afghanistan for several reasons, none of
which had anything to do with terrorism. Most are aware, as written by
Zbigniew Brzezinski, that the Caspian Basin, which is anchored by
Afghanistan, sits on not only massive hydrocarbon deposits, but controls
key “Silk Road” connectors between Europe and China as well. This would
normally be enough, but this would also require that a pack of thugs,
and the Bush government was just that, thinking with their “big brain”
and not their “little one.”
There was long a neocon plan in place to create not just a Greater
Israel from the Nile to Euphrates, but as we all recognize, a new
Ottoman Empire, and perhaps a Roman Empire as well. Current moves to
destabilize Europe under the guise of reactionary extremist political
movements or even a New Cold War, become more transparent each day.
But we are going to address Afghanistan and the unseen disaster
America’s gangster government walked into. Afghanistan has always been a
trap, first for Alexander, then Britain and finally Russia. For America
it has been a very special kind of trap, drawing in the greedy, the
corrupt, bringing them what they desire most, and letting them drown in
their own vomit.
America’s first goal was to meld a regime between former Communists
and the Uzbek and Tajik minorities of the “Northern Alliance.” The
purpose for this was to rebuild Afghanistan’s old opium production
capability destroyed by the Taliban, and to use American taxpayer cash
to modernize it, refine it, build it on an advanced business model, and
to fund, with the trillions it would produce, global regime change.
Toward that end, USAID and the State Department began land
redistribution projects in close partnership with Afghan drug lords who
had been pushed into hiding by the Taliban. Now, with tens of thousands
of US and NATO, along with other “coalition” read “drug” partners on the
ground in Afghanistan, tens of thousands of acres could be converted
for opium production using specialized fertilizers and aided by “nation
building” irrigation projects, all of which only went toward narcotics
production.
In order to avoid the loss of
profits from exporting hundreds of tons of opium paste to Turkey or into
Kosovo/Albania, heroin production facilities were constructed across
Afghanistan. Some were to be entirely owned by Karzai lieutenants, while
others were controlled by members of America’s congress and by large
financial supporters of the Bush presidency.
Managing this properly could only be done through privatization. It
wasn’t that the Pentagon and Department of Justice/FBI, along with the
State Department and CIA, weren’t willing to “do anything for a buck.”
The truth was far from it. It was just that they weren’t trustworthy
enough to handle this kind of cash or to run a profitable business. All
the Pentagon knew how to do is steal. Few now remember that immediately
before the 9/11 attacks, the Department of Defense announced a 2+
trillion-dollar shortfall, which was under investigation by a special
unit whose members were all killed during the 9/11 attack. They were
never replaced; the money was never found; the shortfall was never
mentioned again.
Toward that end, the Bush administration
began “privatization “efforts for not just the Pentagon but CIA as
well, with a second “shadow CIA” set up using private contracting
companies under the direct control of the DeVos family, whose son-in-law
founded Blackwater. Those unfamiliar with companies like Amway or Coors
Brewing or Michelin or Dupont or Fluor are unlikely to know the role
they have played, both good and bad, in creating an “alternative
pathway” for US foreign policy and war making.
Private efficiency was eventually replaced by a new style of “bandit
privatization.” This led to a revolving door of black prisons and
mercenary armies, and made America’s rendition program nothing more than
a front for not only drug business, but human and, in particular,
“human organ” trafficking as well.
The new business model quickly learned that a ton of heroin could be
sold only once, but a little boy or little girl, before they eventually
became mindless zombies from months or years of sexual abuse, could
produce not only millions, but provide valuable blackmail and extortion
services as well.
This led to total control of media and entertainment, of courts and
judges, or police agencies — all the tools a Bush regime structured
around organized crime in Chicago during the “Roaring Twenties” found
valuable.
Then again, a human body could be “field stripped” for organs by
“Doctors without Scruples” and recoup even more investment, selling off
organ after organ, flying them around the world on privatized, “above
the law” CIA planes hosted by Gaddafi’s Libya.
Oh, everyone got involved in this — India for sure, as their RAW
operated and continues to across Afghanistan, against Pakistan and Iran.
Truckloads of heroin head north into Russia, while the drug trade banks
through Pakistan with financial instruments taken to Israel and then
cleansed into the international banking system through “reputable” Swiss
banks.
Protecting it all is the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. They have received literally hundreds of
reliable reports of these activities over the years and have quashed
every investigation. Those who have tried to move against this cabal
have been murdered, dozens of American officials assassinated by State
Department contract killers.
Others who have come forward with evidence were sent to “Foggy
Bottom” to be awarded fat US contracts, building sidewalks in Bagram Air
Force Base, or setting up imaginary schools and orphanages – given the
chance to “take the money and live” or keep trying to talk and end up
dead.
The end process has left the US with a corrupt military,
with contracting firms running the CIA and State Department, and with
three dozen members of congress addicted to “dancing boys” and Cayman
Island bank accounts administered by a former GOP presidential candidate
we are not allowed to mention.
Gordon Duff is
a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans
and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by
security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board
of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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