Nobel Peace Prize’s “Successful Military Offensive” in Afghanistan

Responding to the guidelines presented by the Pentagon, NATO has launched a “successful offensive” in Afghanistan. The outcome is tens of civilian casualties…all due to error.

The Afghan people have bad habits: they look alike, they hold the idea that the land is theirs, they believe in their right to choose an appropriate government for them and they try to hold on to their own habits and customs. More so, they continue to struggle in the only way known to them, the way they have fought for centuries against invaders, who have fruitlessly persevered to occupy the Afghan lands, to install themselves as owners with the sole purpose of taking advantage of it. Throughout history, the invaders’ reasons ranged from “Glory for Her Majesty” to “In the Name of God,” but in reality the invaders used the territory as operational bases targeting other countries in the region (Russia, China and India), which would then install governments and train the traitors who would, in turn, assassinate the hand that feeds. They would sell opium and heroin to the world. All of which, according the empire’s propagandists, are obviously contrary to Christian and Western values, done in the name of a false god and a geopolitical and financial means of control through blood and fire.

It seems that Barack Obama should have handed over his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to the centurions of the military industry and the war strategists. Again it is the belligerent, arrogant language reigning in Washington that is eager to teach the rebels a lesson for resisting slavery and for wanting a sovereign country without occupational troops or puppet governments.

In actuality, according to practice, Obama doesn’t seem to be such a pacifist nor are the Afghans convinced of the kindness of democracy imposed through military channels. What is certain is that NATO’s military machinery, euphemistically named International Security Force Assistance, which launched the so-called Operation Moshtarak (Dari and Arabic for “together” or “joint”), only represents a typical punishing operation against a territory and a people rebelling against the colonial invader.

General James Jones, Obama’s counselor on national security matters, hastily ensured the “success” of the operation, which included several thousand U.S., British, Danish, Estonian and Canadian soldiers and 2000 more local soldiers to secure 80,000 Marjah residents — the objective of the operation. More so, the plan of the Nobel Peace Prize is to send 30,000 extra soldiers with the most sophisticated weaponry, who will be unable to avoid getting bogged down in the war.

Jones assured that President Karzai, suspiciously elected to power, supported the operation, noting that as opposed to the past, international and American forces will not retreat after having taken control of the region but will stay to create economic opportunities and a secure climate with the help of local authorities. In other words, afterwards, on the devastated land, the territorial occupiers will act as local law enforcement.

One could say “Remember Vietnam,” but what is certain is that if the foreign forces stay, they will not be able to sleep calmly and will have to pay the cost of the occupation. There will be many coffins returning to the U.S. and its allies.

Once again, the Afghans have been offered an excellent motive to fight. It already happened with the British and the Soviets, whose soldiers had to pay the price of a shameful defeat at the hands of those underdeveloped mountaineers, who are armed with an unshakable willpower to fight.

The same will happen to NATO and to the Americans, unless they make the country completely disappear.

It should be mentioned that this war started long before 9/11, when it was supposedly a response to the cruel terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Way before that, Americans had authorized covert operations against the Soviet Union and trained and financed the Taliban.

It should not be forgotten that Osama Bin Laden was trained by the CIA not only in his guerrilla warfare preparation but also in banking management in order to finance the 35,000 troops belonging to 40 countries that were fighting the Soviet forces installed in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. Today’s combat against the Taliban is only another step in the American objectives of maintaining a regional operational base on Afghani territory. This way, the Afghani people can do the Americans’ dirty work.

Within these historical circumstances and geographical scenarios, it is not possible to maintain hope for the possibility of a military victory or a solution for the region. The troops could kill rebellious leaders through terrorist actions, the way it is done these days, but this will only cause new and major rebellions, generating new combatants. Such actions will maintain a spiral of violence, terrorism and asymmetric war — all situations of which the Americans are so afraid. There is reason for such a fear.

Afghanistan will unleash insecurity on a global level. No one will be able to complain about having unleashed the demons.

It is a fact that the use and abuse of martial force is not the most advisable route to make this world more secure and fair, something that should have been known by the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.