Canada still punishing Afghans because we lost war to Taliban

Had occasion to listen to multiple CBC newscasts on the car radio today. Sunday’s earthquake in Afghanistan featured in every one. Also featured in every one were commentators who stressed the importance of making sure none of our aid, such as it might be, fell into the hands of the Taliban. We want our aid to aid Afghan’s women and girls, not the Taliban. This is profoundly churlish, stupid, and counterproductive. In the first place, how do these people propose to help women and girls without helping the men in their lives? Further, whether we like it or not, the Taliban are the government. The fact that many American Empire Loyalists across Canadian government and media remain in bitter denial about that fact doesn’t make it go away. The Taliban government is asking for international help, and we should do what we can. It was the “little guy from Shawinigan” who made the decision to put Canadian troops in harms way, and 148 of them paid the ultimate price; in a country utterly irrelevant to any conceivable Canadian interests. What motivated Chretien had nothing to do with Canadian interests and everything to do with currying Uncle Sam’s favour. Harper deserves some credit for recognizing the obvious. The dumbshits in DC stuck with their Afghan folly another seven years after Harper pulled the plug on our participation. They spent twenty years and a trillion dollars fighting the Taliban and losing. Within six months of their shambolic retreat they were promising Ukraine “whatever it takes for as long as it takes” to whup Russia. They just lost a war to a bunch of illiterate goat herders and opium farmers, but they’ve got the wherewithal to ensure Ukrainian victory over Russia? Somebody in Kyiv didn’t do their due diligence before they signed up for that nonsense! Check out the Wikipedia page on international relations of Afghanistan. The 16 countries opposing recognition of the Taliban are all NATO members or otherwise US vassals like Chile. The current list of countries with de facto diplomatic relations with the Taliban runs to 26, including most of those in attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization shindig just concluded in China, a world-historic event that got scant coverage in Western media. Oddly enough, our ongoing betrayal of our one-time Afghan allies remains… ongoing. We’ve heard all about the interpreters and assorted “fixers,” rightly seen in their country as traitors for collaborating with the invaders. We promised them safe passage to Canada for themselves and their families. And so we should. I believe we have a moral obligation to these people. Their lives are understandably at risk, as were the lives of the Nazi collaborators in Western Europe after the WWII. Eleven years after we quit the war, we’re still doing everything we can to avoid our obligations to those Afghans who risked everything to help us. That’s despicable.