There is only one fitting response to last week’s heart-wrenching suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul: America must get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible, and stay out, for good. Nothing good has come of America’s involvement in Afghanistan, and nothing more will come out of it, except more flag-draped coffins.
Sickeningly, the US security state responded to last Thursday’s attack with a borderline glee. Sadly, ISIS-Khorasan’s (ISIS-K) gruesome attack served the forever-war lobby perfectly, as it used the tragedy to launch a final Hail Mary bid to prolong America’s interminable, objective-free crusade in Southwest Asia. In the process, the globalist war lobby revealed one of the most cynical, sinister components of a playbook it has run for two decades — a playbook that capitalizes on public ignorance to conflate wildly different groups and oversell totally unproven claims in the service of perpetuating endless warfare.
ISIS-K immediately claimed credit for Thursday’s attack, and there is no reason to doubt it. Yet even before authorities released an official body count, former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster announced his choice of culprit: The Taliban, either acting alone or in direct concert with ISIS.
McMaster says he’s sure we’ll find out that the Taliban knew about the airport attack. When that proves false, will he be asked about it? Will Andrea Mitchell stop giving him a platform? Or will he just be invited on next time to keep lying? pic.twitter.com/zG2aqPQQo8
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 26, 2021
HR McMaster just said (on @FoxNews) that "I wouldn't be surprised if this #ISISK (ISIS-Khurasan) attack was just a straw man, a front, for the Taliban." So the years of open acrimony between the two is a mirage? Come on, man. pic.twitter.com/Yp562P6FTK
— The Occidental Jihadist (@Occidentaljihad) August 26, 2021
For DC warhawks, no doubt, it’s easy to imagine Taliban and ISIS teaming up. They’re both bad guys, right? Bad guys work together. That’s how it works in comic book movies — sub-literate America’s primary cultural lens for making sense of the world.
