The continuous expansion of global capitalism is the result of more than 70 interventionist wars against different developing countries that have been waged in order to achieve beneficial political conditions for its markets, allow the penetration of Western capital, and dominate the extraction of natural resources and the labor force.
To continue believing that we must only run crying to the gringos and return with fists full of dollars is an opportunistic and irresponsible formula that, in Washington, they reject and despise.
Together with the Iraq invasion, which was initiated by Obama’s predecessor in 2003, the armed conflict in Afghanistan has been characterized by systematic human rights violations and a loss of the most basic ethical principles in the conduct of war.