Face-covering, school-closing regime returns to Afghanistan

You can follow the Taliban live on Twitter, but not Trump. Liberal hypocrisy has no shame.

The history of Afghanistan is bizarre. Alexander the Great came unstuck there (not before Kandahar was named after him). The British turned tail there in 1919. The Soviets in 1989. Both empires did not last much longer after that.

But still the US had the hubris to assume they could impose a liberal state on a tribal, decentralized state.

Twenty years later, they are abandoning their allies and fleeing the country without their military hardware. The world's most fearsome military has lost again. Their recent decision to promote LGBT ideology internally, fund soldier sex changes, and stand down troops to educate them on the dangers of white rage, all overseen by Biden’s new Secretary of Defense, a weapons manufacturing lobbyist, belies a liberal arrogance corroding the west.

Biden and Trump are both not wrong to want to leave. It has been twenty years of so-called nation-building. Trump should have left in 2017. His generals would not let him leave last year in ominous military disregard for civilian rule. Biden tried to get Obama to leave in 2009. Obama chose the Bush playbook instead, as he would in Libya too.

The history of the Taliban is largely misunderstood. The reasons for its rise, scattering, and resurgence are both intriguing and instructive in terms of how liberal ignorance of Afghanistan culture and history demonstrates the anarcho-tyranny of the liberal, Atlanticist global regime, the arbitrary wielding of force for decadent and contingent modern Anglosphere values.

There is no oil in Afghanistan. It is mountainous and snowy rather than desert-like. Some of its people are redheaded and blue-eyed.

Yet it has been a proxy for imperial disputes between Russia, Britain (as part of their ‘Great Game’), and later the US and global Islam, for centuries now. There is no grand, hidden reason for this that I can see. Perhaps the heroin trade accounts for it. I do not know. But in learning a little about the Taliban the nature of global liberalism is laid bare in all its hypocrisy and self-righteousness.

The Taliban emerged in the wake of the Islamic war lords who had, with US assistance, overthrown the Soviet-allied government. The Americans went so far as to publish jihadist textbooks for Afghan children, in a bid to provoke rage and resistance when the Soviets invaded.

These Islamic militants repelled the Soviets, but then descended into their own civil war.

The Taliban emerged from the resultant chaos, as young jihadists who had studied in Pakistan returned to the country and looked to sharia law to bring about order in their country. The word Taliban actually means students.

The Taliban are brutal. Yet they gained support because of how disgusting and awful the rule of the US-backed war lords had become.

One can find accounts like this on the Wikipedia page of the founder, Mohammed Omar, a mysterious figure who apparently was allowed to live on in Afghanistan after the US invasion, close to a US military camp:

What is bacha bazi? That is probably crucial to understanding the whole Afghanistan debacle.

Bacha bazi means dancing boys and refers to the keeping of boys as sex slaves, a cultural practice in much of Afghanistan. But who are we to judge? Culture is relative.

The US thought as much. The Taliban outlawed the practice but the US forces were ordered to turn a blind eye when their allies resumed the sordid practice:

The Taliban would also end the massive heroin trade emanating from their country's poppy fields. The trade resumed to fund the American-backed network of warlords and politicians.

We know, or think we know, the story about why the US invaded - because the Taliban played host to Bin Laden when he planned 9/11. It has never been sufficiently explained why the US did not accept Omar’s offer to hand over Bin Laden to a neutral party for trial, or why Afghanistan was so crucial to terrorism when all the 9/11 hijackers had gained legal entry into the United States. And were mostly Saudi in nationality.

The response seemed fairly simple - accept the handover of Bin Laden, bomb Al Qaeda camps, seal cockpits from passengers, and be a bit more careful about foreigners entering your country to take flying lessons. Instead, the country was invaded, and the US spent 20 years trying to build a democracy there. Iraq would follow, then Libya, and then remnants of Al Qaeda were armed to bring down Assad in Syria, unsuccessfully. Millions have died. ISIS, opposed to the Taliban interestingly, was created. Bacha bazi was restored. The ancient Christian communities of the Middle East were destroyed.

And when Trump tried to shift direction, the deep state crippled his presidency with the nonsensical story of him being a paid Russian asset. And thus a politician pro- every war in US history, Joe Biden, was restored for a third Obama term. Fortunately he has managed to leave, albeit in a state of chaos and utter disgrace, befitting an American and global liberal empire crippled by its hypocritical obsession with its liberal moral crusades.

The Taliban would not exist without the US, just as the democratic government it imposed could only exist as a US creature. In fact, the country may still be ruled by a neglectful, mostly harmless king, if the US and the Soviets had just left them alone.

Let a lesson be learnt by the world. America and its NATO allies are not guided by virtue or even normal rationality in the sense of self-interest. The media crying about women's rights in Afghanistan said nothing about bacha bazi.

Twitter will allow the Taliban the use of their platform but not Donald Trump, Gallup’s most admired American man of 2020, believe it or not.

From covid to blm, there is no truth or rationality to the moralism of global liberalism.

The Taliban do not let girls go to school. Canada does not let grandmothers take their granddaughters out to dinner without getting injected first:

And when, in the coming days, before media interest wanes, we hear of the evils of the Taliban, think twice about their conception of the US as the Great Satan. They could be right: