MASSIVE ELECTION FRAUD PUSHES TRIBES TO THE TALIBAN
IS US BACKED LEADER A DICTATOR OR DRUG LORD OR BOTH?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
Last week, Lt. General Stanley McChrystal, US commander in Afghanistan announced the failure of our strategy in the war and asked for both more troops and a total reassessment of our policies. To some, this may sound like optimism. To any realist, it is his announcment that he has seen the light, the light "at the end of the tunnel." That light is a fast freight and heading straight for us.
In one province alone, with no votes submitted at all, Karzai turned in 23,000 phony ballots. Even a survivor of two rigged Ohio elections finds these numbers "over the top." A questionable election would have been a disaster for US troops trying to stabilize small areas in the tribal south of Afghanistan. Tribal leaders blame the US for this offense. An obviously rigged election is going to cost many Americans their lives.
The failures of Vietnam, a war started by our failure to support the Geneva Accord plebiscite, establishing the Diem dictatorship, his later murder and a series of rigged elections are going to seem like childs play.
In Vietnam, Americans supported a repressive and hated Catholic minority government whose blunders built a coalition between, not only Communists, but political moderates and the Buddhist majority. A generation of Americans paid for this with their lives.
In Afghanistan, our answer to the Taliban has been to push a minor group of professional criminals into political power though they have no support in any sector in the nation and are either universally ignored or hated.
Our "end game" is Vietnamization. As there is no central government to turn anything over to, nor is there likely to ever be, our plan has to be to create an imaginary one, melding the tribes of the south, strong supporters of the Taliban with our imaginary friends, a combination of drug lords and former CIA paid "anti-Soviet" Jihadists. Our goal of building a Christian theocracy in Afghanistan may require the rendition of 23 million people to succeed.
That even our "friends" may actually be our enemies or are ready to become our enemies when it suits them doesn’t seem to bother us. Nothing deters us. We went into Afghanistan fighting a religious war against Islam based on a "dry drunk" rage at the Bush turkey farm in Crawford. Delusions of Armageddon, rapture and crusaders beheading non-believers were our only war aims.
Sweetening the pot were dreams of bringing back the greatness of President Reagan, first American leader to turn a modern democracy into drug cartel. Another generation of Whitehouse thugs is telling grand juries "I don’t recall."
As Afghanistan fills with troops, mercenaries, secret prisons and hundreds of mysterious "diplomats" opium production is going thru the roof and more and more land is opening to marijuana production as well, the end consumer, of course, being the United States.
The longer we fight, the less land is under government control. Eventually, we will leave, we have to. Eventually history will have to repeat itself with Marines and Diplomatic Security folks like my old friend Leo Crampsay being on the last chopper to leave the embassy roof.
Decades later, Veterans Affairs will still be working on disability claims for the vets wounded in the war, slowly getting them thru the system, no matter how long it takes of if they die in the process. Maybe vets can turn to cheap Afghan heroin for treatment.
For sure, our streets will stay flooded with cheap heroin the same way our war in Central America flooded our cities with crack.
We could never control our own military or CIA when it came to drug trade. We couldn’t even control the Reagan Whitehouse. How can we control lawless mercenary companies and the endless secret flights supposedly taking terrorist suspects to be tortured and killed in Africa or Eastern Europe?
A nation that has spent billions fighting a war on drugs has spent as many billions creating a massive clandestine smuggling empire, earmarked for kidnapping, torture and murder but certainly involved in a much more lucrative commercial trade.
Do we think folks who kidnap and torture don’t also transport tons of opium around the world? Ask your kids, high school, college maybe middle school. Ask them how easy it is to buy heroin, heroin from Afghanistan.
We went to war over 9/11 and the deaths it caused. Ignoring Gulf War Illness has killed more, so many more and nobody cares. Maybe if Gulf War vets ran drug labs for our politicans, their health and welfare might have been more important.
We will never know how many Katrina killed, Katrina and an utterly incompetent and uncaring government.
Anyone who reads about rigged elections in Afghanistan and sees the photos of our troops walking thru fields of poppies or who reads about the secret flights in and out and doesn’t wonder hasn’t thought about what drugs have cost America.
2 million Americans are in prison, mostly because of drugs. Millions more are addicted and thousands of them will die. Long ago, Michael Ruppert exposed our governments involvement in drug trafficking. Books were written, movies were made, news stories were published.
Now, a couple of decades later, we are fighting a war again, partnered with a drug lord, a war whose goals and purose is obscured by the sea of drug wealth it is producing.
And so it goes…
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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