The opinion emanating from many list members seems to be, "Afghanistan is better off now after US intervention."
I'm sorry but I cannot bring myself to believe such a statement.
Inherent in such a statement is a chauvinism based on an innate (white) racial and "western" superiority complex, one that drives even those on the "left" to let the word "civilizing" slip out of their mouths to speak about what the US did in Afghanistan.
I'm sorry, but I cannot believe this overtly racist, genocidal, colonialist, imperialistic state can do anything good by intervening in a poorer and underdeveloped country. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Like the boy who cried wolf, I guess. If the same thing prooved true time and time and time again, why should I believe it is any different this time around, especially in the age of neoliberalism and the desperate attempt of the US to remain global hegemony?
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