خروج نظامی آمریکا از افغانستان

 می‌گویند خروج نظامی آمریکا از افغانستان و برگشت طالبان به این کشور، ویتنام دیگری برای آمریکا بود. در ویتنام، دولت آمریکا برای پشتیبانی از حکومت دست نشانده خود در آن کشور به جنگ با نیروهای چریکی پرداخت، و در این جنگ بازنده شد و از ویتنام فرار کرد. این تنها دخالت نظامی آمریکا در کشورهای دست نشانده نبود. بارها دولت‌های آمریکا به کشورهای دیگر از نظر سیاسی، فرهنگی، و نظامی حمله کرده‌اند. به عنوان نمونه در کوبا، عمان، یمن، و بسیاری کشورهای دیگر، بطور مستقیم، تنها با کمک تسلیحاتی، و یا توسط گماشتگان خود در منطقه (مانند کشتار چریک‌های عمان توسط نیروهای ایرانی و انگلیسی) برای راندن نیروهای چپ تلاش کرده است و در اکثر آنها پیروز بوده است. تفاوت افغانستان در این است که این دولت قبل از حمله آمریکا در این کشور حکومت میکرد، و با تجاوز آمریکا آنها بیرون رنده شدند، ولی باز توانستند که باز گردند. تفاوت مهمتر آنکه خود آمریکا چنین رژیمی را پایه گذاری کرد، تا حکومت وابسته به شوروی ساقط شود، که البته در این مورد هم پیروز بود. 

Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism

 9/17/2021- Richard D. Wolff

Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism     :   Opinion: - (informationclearinghouse.info)

 Democracy exists if and when a community organises its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or subgroup of that community, a ruler. Universal suffrage is clearly a step toward at least formal democracy because voters elect leaders. How real this formal democracy is depends on the inclusivity of the population voting and the concrete reality of voters’ equal influence on the election’s outcome.

The Winner in Afghanistan: China

 Alfred McCoy/ September 16, 2021

The Winner in Afghanistan: China  :   Opinion: - (informationclearinghouse.info)

 

The collapse of the American project in Afghanistan may fade fast from the news here, but don’t be fooled. It couldn’t be more significant in ways few in this country can even begin to grasp. “Remember, this is not Saigon,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a television audience on August 15th, the day the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital, pausing to pose for photos in the grandly gilded presidential palace. He was dutifully echoing his boss, President Joe Biden, who had earlier rejected any comparison with the fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, in 1975, insisting that “there’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”

20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along, With No End in Sight

 
By Mark Landler

September 11, 2021

20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along, With No End in Sight - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

When President Biden told an exhausted nation on Aug. 31 that the last C-17 cargo plane had left Taliban-controlled Kabul, ending two decades of American military misadventure in Afghanistan, he defended the frantic, bloodstained exit with a simple statement: “I was not going to extend this forever war.”
And yet the war grinds on.

 

A Technologically Advanced Architectural Bridge

From Discover Magazine- Sept/ Oct 2021 (Page 66)

When a video of the double-Decker Ruyi Bridge in China's eastern Zhejiang province widely circulated online in early 2021, some viewers assumed it was fake. it's certainly a surreal sight. The nearly 330-foot-long winding glass bridge is composed of three wavy footpaths and spans the foggy gorges of the Shenxianju Scenic Area. 

 

Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen?

 

In 2001, when the Taliban were weak and ready to surrender, the U.S. passed on a deal. Nearly 20 years later, the Taliban hold all the cards.

By Alissa J. Rubin

Published Aug. 23, 2021Updated Sept. 2, 2021

 Taliban fighters brandished Kalashnikovs and shook their fists in the air after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, defying American warnings that if they did not hand over Osama Bin Laden, their country would be bombed to smithereens.

Threats and Fear Cause Afghan Women’s Protections to Vanish Overnight

 

By Alissa J. Rubin

Sept. 4, 2021Updated 11:00 a.m. ET

 As the Taliban advanced, safe houses for women closed, and the staff sheltered girls at home as relatives released from prison threatened to kill them.

 It took years for Women for Afghan Women to build up Afghanistan’s largest network of women’s protection services — 32 safe houses, family guidance centers and children’s homes in 14 provinces, growing by word of mouth and driven by the intense need for their services.