"In the end, we aren’t just the last in a long line of empires defeated in Afghanistan. Even worse, we’re the last in a long line of empires that raped and plundered it before we left. God help us, if we don’t learn from this." mariannewilliamson.substack.…

Aug 28, 2021 · 2:24 PM UTC

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“Having the military leave before more people had a chance to evacuate was not just a “mess;” it was a continuation of the same lack of humanitarian concern for the people of Afghanistan that had marked our stay there for twenty years.” @marwilliamson
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Narrator: They did not, in fact, learn from their mistakes.
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So literally the opposite of what an Empire does; got it.
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Have you read Afghansi by Rodric Braithwaite? The Russians come out much better than the USA
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Entities that practice war profiteering aren't going to seriously entertain appeals to decency and reason.
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#USDepartmentOfPeace 🕊️ marianne2020.com/u-s-departm…
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Horrific. Criminal. Unforgivable.
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Cribbing Guernica is weak. The cycles of history repeat.
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This, from Dec. 2020 is worth revisiting theintercept.com/2020/12/18/…
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it's the people at the top that've learned "war makes us money and no one will dare stop us in fact we'll have them supporting our war by telling them it's for humanitarian and feminist causes"
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