By Caitlin Johnstone
August 23, 2021"Information
Clearing House" - After the US troop withdrawal
established conclusively that the Afghan
“government” they’d spent twenty years pretending to
nation build with was essentially a work of fiction,
thus proving to the world that they’ve been lying to
us this entire time about the facts on the ground in
Afghanistan, you might expect those who helped pave
the way for that disastrous occupation to be very
quiet at this point in history.
But, far from being silent and slithering under a
rock to wait for the sweet embrace of death, these
creatures have instead been loudly and shamelessly
outspoken.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has
posted a lengthy essay by the former Prime
Minister who led the United Kingdom into two of the
most unconscionable military interventions in living
memory. Blair criticizes the withdrawal as having
been done out of “obedience to an imbecilic
political slogan about ending ‘the forever wars’,”
bloviating about “Radical Islam,” and asking, “has
the West lost its strategic will?”
It’s essentially a 2,750-word temper tantrum,
authored by the same man who fed the British people this
load of horse shit after 9/11:
"The starving, the wretched, the
dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want
and squalor from the deserts of Northern Africa
to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of
Afghanistan: they too are our cause.
This is a moment to seize. The
Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in
flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they
do, let us re-order this world around us."
Blair promised that by helping the Bush
administration usher in an unprecedented new era of
military expansionism they could seize this
unfortunate event to “re-order the world” in a way
that would benefit all the world’s most unfortunate
people.
Mountains of corpses and
tens of millions of refugees later it is clear
to anyone with functioning gray matter that this was
all a pack of lies.
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And now, like any sociopath whose reputation is
under threat, Blair has begun narrative managing.
This is also why George W Bush has
released his own statement through his own
institution. It’s also why Bush-era neocons like
Paul Wolfowitz and
John Bolton are
doing media
tours condemning the withdrawal, and why Bill
Kristol, whose neoconservative influence
played a key role
in the Bush administration’s military expansionism,
is now
promoting the arming of proxy forces against the
Taliban. They’re narrative managing.
They’re narrative managing because they’ve been
proven wrong, and because history will remember them
as men who were proven wrong. Their claims that a
massive increase in military interventionism would
benefit the people of the world have been clearly
and indisputably shown to have been false from top
to bottom, so now they’re just men who helped murder
millions of human beings.
It’s about preserving their reputations and their
legacies. No no, we’re not mass murdering war
criminals, we are visionaries. If we would have just
remained in Afghanistan another twenty years,
history would have vindicated us. If we would have
just killed more people in Iraq, it would be a
paradise right now. The catastrophe cannot possibly
be the fault of the people directly responsible for
orchestrating it. It’s got to be the fault of the
officials who inherited it. It’s the fault of the
ungrateful inhabitants of the nations we graciously
invaded. It’s the people and their imbecilic desire
to end “the forever wars”.
But of course it’s their fault. None of this
needed to be this way, it was made this way by
stupid people with no functioning empathy centers.
They can try to re-frame and spin it however they
like, but history will remember them for the
monsters they are. The saner our society becomes,
the more unforgiving our memory of their crimes will
be.
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