US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan

[Rev. Rye]

The U.S foreign policy doesn't seem to care about human rights; it even became a landmark of its foreign policy. The U.S protected and sponsored some of the worst governments on earth -literally-. And still does BTW -cough cough; MBS-

Instead of focusing on far history to understand the terrible -and disastrous- American interventions worldwide, let's look at a very close event like the emerging of the Taliban themselves:






The above are America's allies. So didn't the U.S "know" how bad they were? or you want to convince me that the CIA is "poor and ignorant"? I mean America can snuff Qasim Sulaimani with drones, arrest Saddam from underground, but poor them Americans don't know who the Taliban are?

A nuclear superpower vs flip-flops..

America is a mighty force, that's what I know. If the Taliban turned from allies into enemies then allies allover again, then I smell bullshit.

And if an enthusiast with the American army tells me that somebody is bad, I smell more bullshit.

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And don't get me started on morals; I mean the U.S is the first force in the world to burn children in a massive nuclear holocaust.

I'm not even going to dispute that. American foreign policy at least from the time they had William Walker installed as president of Nicaragua, has always been more about promoting whatever bullshit interests they have in a country's economy or political situation than any real moral issue. I'm sure their interest in propping up the Muhajadeen in the 70s and 80s was that they were trying to fight the Soviet Union more than any claim that they didn't know how shitty they were. Not much different from when the US overthrew Mossadegh and replaced him with The Shah. 


This has pretty much been Standard Operating Procedure for US foreign policy for at least a century and a half.

That said, this does NOT excuse any shitty behaviour or human rights violations on their opponents' side. The biggest force that drove the Nazis to their knees in WW2 was the Soviet Union. Doesn't mean that Stalin wasn't a monster in his own ways. Still responsible for about 20 million deaths, including at least one controlled famine that many consider a genocide (while I don't doubt for a second that Stalin didn't lose a Planck Time of sleep over the deaths of all those 3 million Ukrainians, I doubt that it was all that intentional.) Doesn't mean Hitler was any better.

And about the "First force in the world to burn children in a massive nuclear holocaust" thing: First and only. Still don't think it's a good thing, still don't think it makes the war crimes of the Imperial Japanese Army any better.

Whataboutism is not a good look, Atlas.

I can deal with two sides in a global conflict being disastrously wrong-headed and immoral. Can you?