A purely economic look at the Afghan war. And more. http://burndownthefreakingmission.com
Amplify’d from www.lewrockwell.com
The war is going badly. The American and NATO troops
don't understand the culture, the religion, and they don't speak
the language. The Afghan's don't want foreign soldiers in their
country any more than Americans and European's would want a bunch
of heavily-armed, angry young Muslim soldiers running around, breaking
down doors in the middle of the night. All that war will do is encourage
terrorism – which is just a military tactic. But it's a very
viable tactic for a poor society with lots of jobless young people
to use against rich ones. They spend a few thousand dollars to destroy
stuff – tanks, planes, buildings, infrastructure, and expensively
trained and equipped soldiers – worth many millions. In response
the Americans spend billions more to blow up a bunch of sand, and
kill jihadis who are replaced like the heads of a hydra. It is amazing
to me that Western governments are still over there trying to do
what they are doing. It's actually completely insane, and completely
counter-productive. Of course, from a historical point of view,
it's just a continuation of the Crusades, and the long war between
Islam and Christendom, that's been going on well over a thousand
years now.Read more at www.lewrockwell.com
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/b7ATbu
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