In Washington parlance, if you’re not an “ally,” you’re an enemy.
RT:
US President Joe Biden notified Congress on Wednesday that he will formally revoke Afghanistan’s status as a “Major Non-NATO Ally,” almost a year after the last American soldier left the country on his orders – and the Washington-backed government melted in Kabul away before the Taliban.
Biden has sent an official notice to the US House of Representatives and the Senate of his intent to rescind Afghanistan’s designation, the White House said. It was not clear when the change would take effect.
Afghanistan was originally designated as a MNNA under President Barack Obama in 2012, over a decade after the US invaded and overthrew the Taliban government in Kabul, accusing it of harboring international terrorist Osama bin Laden. The designation helped Washington fully fund Kabul’s military budget for years.
The designation is “a powerful symbol of the close relationship the US shares with those countries and demonstrates our deep respect for the friendship” for them, according to the State Department. While it provides some military and economic privileges, it “does not entail any security commitments to the designated country.”
This is apparently just a technicality that someone forgot about. I don’t think after the US military formally surrendered to the Taliban, anyone actually thought the country was an “ally” of Washington.
Although there was some suggestion that the US would be willing to work with the Taliban on security issues or whatever, it was pretty obvious that the Taliban was just going to invite China in to start making them some money.
So, this isn’t really an important story, but it is kind of a final admission that that entire 20-year war was totally pointless, and literally accomplished absolutely nothing other than to waste trillions of dollars in American wealth and get a bunch of boys killed.
Just imagine the amount of energy that was put into that war, and then imagine all of the other things that this energy could have been put into.
There’s more to be said about America losing a war to Bronze Age tribal people, I’m sure. You have this meme of “no country with gay pride parades has ever won a war.” I think losing to the Taliban shows that every battle is a spiritual battle, and the Pashtun people are nothing but alpha male energy.
You can picture these guys in a cave in 2001 being told that the biggest and most powerful military in world history is invading their small goat herder cave nation, and just nodding and grunting, like, “alright. We’ll deal with it.”
There is something to be learned about the way people who are masculine and metaphysical view death and sacrifice. We need to further examine the fear of death and its crippling effects.
You’re not going to find any more clear representation of masculine energy than the Pashtun, but of course, it’s also one of the most technologically simplistic nations on earth (I don’t think it is fair to say “primitive” in the way you would say an African country is “primitive,” as they have a complex and functional social order and hierarchy). But there clearly needs to be some kind of balance between material development and maintaining metaphysical energy, if that is possible (we don’t really know if it is possible).
It’s probably important to acknowledge just how far we’ve fallen. We look to the 1950s as some kind of ideal.
But the Taliban would look at Elvis Presley and say “what the hell is that faggot doing?”