Thursday 12 December 2019

Misled On The Afghan War, Obviously

Thousands of US Government documents have been released which shows that we may have been misled about the war in Afghanistan. Stop laughing at the back!
As if we needed any proof was needed that politicians and diplomats haven't a clue about what's happening in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched mainly to try and look as if America was doing something after the 9/11 attacks with the United States Permanent Representative to NATO, Army General Douglas Lute, saying: 'We didn't know what we was doing' and another was quoted as saying they used brightly coloured pie charts to disguise any bad news.
Beats me how that one slipped by us but as it is now America's longest running war  and it has been good for business, mainly the arms and funeral business admittedly but we need to take the silver linings where we can find them.
The banks have profited out of it also, it is reported that interest payments on loans to pay for the whole sorry debacle are going to be around $600 billion dollars and the Taliban have done great well from it, after being kicked out of power by 2001, it's pretty much back in control of the whole country.
See, we may not have known what we were doing and it may have resulted in over 125,000 needless deaths but in there is always a bright side to everything if you look hard enough, and use pie charts with primary colours.

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