Washington DC 9/11/21
Serious Reflection Required
"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat, using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations”.
Anniversaries are a time for reflection. This coming 9/11 will be tough for self evident reasons. I understand people's desire to say patriotic things and leave it at that. Some will say this is not the time to do critical thinking. I think it honors the dead because it's designed to learn from mistakes.
A little while ago I rewatched this story of a true hero who was largely ignored and even punished for his warnings. I offer the following in the spirit of his life's work. https://lnkd.in/gYhCcDhC What I am about to say, I have said in war college classrooms since 2005.
The US fell into a trap that the enemy warned us he was setting. I would use the above citation and add that we were doing to ourselves what we did, with our mujahedeen allies, to the Soviets in the 80s. When you print the global currency its hard to go bankrupt. But in terms of spending more than you earn, we have been bankrupt since the 90s surplus, and not just due to war.
We started the war right. Small footprint mostly covert CT ops aimed at AQ not the TB. If we nailed UBL in Tora Bora (I'd have considered a tactical nuke in that remote scenario) the global copy cats would have likely not occurred. But we got sucked into endless mission creep.
Today a significant portion of the population think just like AQ. Namely, if you do not totally agree with them you are an enemy who must be eliminated.
The US is sliding into Civil War. Extremists have wanted this for decades and it never happened. Because the manipulation of social media by powerful monied domestic and international interests did not exist until recently.
Here is some reading to anticipate the American Jihad.
Bannon’s strategy