THE BIG GUY'S JUNK

Events are moving fast in Afghanistan, now that the exit of US troops is nearing its end. It may, in fact, be too late to evacuate many American citizens, let alone the Afghans who assisted our military for the last twenty years.

Expect a bloodbath, and so forth.

It's all a reminder, really, of what a mistake it was to invade the country in the first place.

We were in pursuit of one guy, Osama bin Laden. That was the mission. Took us ten years to get him, but we made it happen. In Pakistan.

Did we invade Pakistan to do it? No. We just choppered in and blasted the man.

Why did it take that long? Probably because we were distracted by getting bogged down in Afghanistan, undoing Taliban restrictions, trying to transform the joint into America Light.

Oh yeah, and we had also invaded Iraq for no legitimate reason. We were very nicely bogged down there, too.

It was a two-fer. Afghanistan and Iraq, both invaded for bogus reasons, the US having learned nothing from our ten year adventure in Vietnam.

Now the blame game is cranking up. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says this is all on Biden. Trump reduced troop strength in the country and nothing like this happened.

Sounds like pure dumb luck. Or maybe the Taliban didn't trust Trump to follow through and actually pull out the troops.

Folks complain we ought to have decided to stay longer. Maybe a lot longer.

The reality is, the Taliban are deeply religious folks in a country where it is a good thing to be deeply religious. They hold the moral high ground. They have no doubt they're doing God's work on Earth.

One critic pointed out the women and girls of Afghanistan are about to take a rocket-ride back to the Ninth Century.

I believe it. About all the US can do about it is try to smuggle some of them out of the country. It's a token project.

So, what could we have done differently? (I mean, aside from not having invaded the country in the first place.)

We could have elected to stay. For a long time, in great strength. Maybe a million troops, willing to hunker down for a few thousand years, to stay in place until the very concept of Islam has faded from the world.

Because make no mistake: This is a religious war.

As long as religion rules the roost, matters will suck in Afghanistan (and many other countries). There's no way around that.

It's a human thing. We've released the Kraken.

Absolutely doesn't matter that the Kraken is an imaginary creature. Making stuff up and then murdering people over it is what we do here.

It's our deal, our sacred duty. We are, after all, God's Penis on Earth.