Put on your equal opportunity, SJW hats today. This is not for the weak minded. If the Taliban are the “legitimate” gov’t of Afghanistan, then US has been committing Foreign Terrorism upon the Taliban/afghani people under the guise of “War” for 20 years! The United States has been unlawfully abusing violence to unduly influence their Taliban Government!
With the exit of the United States from Afghanistan, the Taliban (a declared terrorist organization) are now setting up their Afghani national government, they even have their own central bank; and are already recognized by China and Russia. Afghanistan seems to operate under a mono-party political system, like China with their Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Taliban are the only political party in their proverbial town. Even the US is negotiating with the Taliban due to their control of force and violence in the area. Negotiation is de facto recognition of the Taliban.
Given that the Taliban are now the single legitimatized political party of Afghanistan, it must be pointed out that without US Military Forces application of force/violence, such Taliban controlled government would have come about much earlier.
Foreign Terrorism is the use of violence to influence government.
Ergo, the United States was literally engaged in Foreign Terrorism to unduly influence the Taliban’s Afghani Government. Trillions of US Budget Dollars were spent on terrorizing and unduly influencing the people and Taliban of Afghanistan.
The money ($2.26 Trillion Dollars; $2,260,000,000,000) spent openly terrorizing the Taliban could have been better spent on other things like domestic infrastructure. Using that same amount of money spent on the war but diplomatically (without war crimes and foreign terrorism being committed) in a Taliban Afghanistan would have gone infinitely further. Alas, the Iraqi and Afghani Wars were literally the military-industrial complex robbing the treasury at the expense of the terrorism of Iraqi and Afghani people.
ALL the money spent on the Afghan war should be clawed back from the War State/DEEP STATE to and for the people.
Given the amount of money spent to unlawfully unduly influence the Taliban with violence over 20 years, it should be pointed out that the United States is the single greatest modern state actor of terrorism the world has ever seen. No other country would dare spend that much money on unduly influencing a government or their political parties with such violence. Not surprising coming from the only country that openly used nuclear weapons on a civilian population.
Are the Taliban unduly violent? Yes.
Should they be in control of a country? No.
Are they in control of Afghanistan? Yes.
Was the US using violence to influence the Taliban (aka, terrorism)? Yes. $2.26 trillion dollars worth.
Should the US (Presidents, military brass, soldiers, etc) be held accountable? Yes.
Will anyone in the US be held accountable for 20 years of terrorism against the Taliban and Afghani People? No. Awards have been given to soldiers for their violence. This cognitive dissonance is likely too strong.
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