Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 03, 2021

New York Times The Interpreter: Two Afghanistans — Anand Gopal has long reported for The New York Times and others from stretches of Afghanistan that few other Westerners have entered. There’s the rural Afghanistan, and there’s the urban Afghanistan. all the coverage is in Kabul, so one would think there is complete chaos in the country… life outside Kabul is calm, and for the first time, outside of Kabul there’s no war… Kabul and a handful of other cities became islands of semi-Americanized stability, protected by the United States and funded by billions of dollars in annual direct aid. the war, in rural Afghanistan, has been very different. It means fierce, sometimes dayslong gun battles. Night raids and drone strikes without explanation. Cruel, capricious warlords and corrupt officials backed by a central government you’ve never encountered. Thousands of dead per year, year after year, for a generation.

to the majority of Afghans who live in rural areas, there is no Kabul-style island of stability to lose. The picture of American departure may not represent a loss at all, but rather a reprieve from the terrifying and unpredictable violence of constant war.

Amen Sister!

Here, here.

Preachin’ to the choir, Scott. Hope your Congressional and Executive reps hear you.

They look strained, like they had to hold those Colorforms Frolic Poses for a whole minute while somebody waited for the light to be perfect.

But it won’t be… Human nature being what it is.

Well, there is always the possibility that ONE of the wars will be the last war we ever have because…..

No more wars? That will anger the military industrial complex and get you labelled a RINO!

We will always have another war, because the MIC and republicans will work together to rent out our Military. Which is why I call the DOD War Inc.

It should be a statue of donny getting pantsed by two Afghans, while two statued MAGAts beat a crumpled statue of Biden! That’s six people total for those that STILL believe vaccines are worse than CRYSTALIZED LUNGS. LOVE!

What WAR ? Was there any formal declaration of war? Against who?

It should be a series of statues: 2 Afghans that pantsed donny, bent it over and spanked it with copies of Forbes; President Biden in a fetal position getting kicked by 2 redhats.

Should be.

Not will be.

How long before the next peace breaks out?

It will never happen, not as long as there’s aggression, or terrorism, or countries who just hate America.

How many idiotic wars has Luxembourg sent its army to fight? Or Switzerland? How many angry turban wearers on TV shouting “Death to Switzerland?”

I hope.