[lbo-talk] The Afghanistan War is Illegal, Unjust, Murderous, Wasteful and Unwinnable

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Sun Feb 17 22:17:27 PST 2008


1. If the imperialist occupiers left Afghanistan, the Taliban would topple the bourgeois democracy which is now propped up by foreign military force.

2. If anyone with power really cared about the Afghanis themselves, they'd help them develop means of wealth production. Instead, the people who occupy Afghanistan are more interested in keeping the Afghanis from harvesting wealth (poppy growing) and killing indigenous nationalist theocrats.

3. Legal war is like capital punishment on a grand scale.

4. The only 'just war' is class war..ruled class vs. ruling class.

5. Murder should not be a political weapon.

6. War wastes the wealth and blood we all should share.

7. The conflict between the theocratic nationalists and the rest of the Afghanis *can* be won e.g. by giving the mass of Afghanis a means to produce wealth for themselves, including poppy production, marijuana production and hemp production with guarenteed markets in the West.

8. The above will never happen because neither the theocratic nationalists nor the imperialist occupiers want it to happen. These power mongers have other plans.....

Mike B)

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