Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance by Dave LIndorff!
(2021-08-12 at 21:00:25 )

Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance by Dave LIndorff!

Petulance as foreign policy:

AC-130 Spectre gunship rains random death from the sky in the name of America (US Air Force photo)

In what can only be called a criminal and murderous tantrum by a loser, the United States, on the order of President Joe Biden, has begun dispatching B-52 Stratofortress bombers and AC-130 fixed-wing gunships equipped with large Gatling machine guns and a cannon to carpet-bomb and perpetrate mass killing on Taliban forces surging to victory across Afghanistan.

The bloody attack by unchallengeable air power in a country that President Biden has already withdrawn troops from will not stop the collapse of the United States puppet regime in Kabul, and the complete takeover of battered Afghanistan by the Islamic group that the United States ousted from power in 2001 and that it has been battling now for two decades. Victory by the tenacious Taliban fighters who have driven the United States military out is a foregone conclusion.

All this outrageous and pathetic United States tantrum does is slaughter fighters who are struggling to recover their country from a United States military that had no business occupying the war-torn country in the first place, while inevitably killing large numbers of innocent civilian men, women and children who are in harms way of this broad, untargeted assault.

B-52s, 1950s relics of the Cold War, fly at above 40,000 feet and drop their up to 35-ton payload of bombs and probably fragmentation weapons on broad "target zones" that they cannot possibly see or analyze.

Still flying and raining random death on civilians in the Third World: the B-52 Stratofortress (US Air Force photo)

As for the AC-130 Spectre gunships - large four-engine jets equipped with an array of weaponry that allows them to spray a large area with devastating numbers of large-caliber projectiles - these are weaponized platforms of mass murder.

It was an AC-130 that destroyed a large and well-marked and identified Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar in 2015 during a time the Taliban had taken over most of that city. That one war crime killed 42 patients and medical workers at the hospital. Under international pressure and facing domestic protests too, the Pentagon eventually "disciplined" 16 military officials, but none were criminally prosecuted in what the United States passed off as a series of "mistakes."

There are sure to be a lot of such "mistakes" being made now in the current futile and petulant United States aerial assault on Afghanistan.

President Biden, in announcing the pullout of United States troops from Afghanistan, pointedly said that the United States would continue to use airpower against advancing Taliban forces, even as he said the United States was ending the Afghanistan War it began back in October 2001 following the 9-11-01 attacks. He tried to claim that the United States was not losing but was leaving because the "objective" of destroying Al Qaeda, had been "achieved."

That claim is laughable!

Not only did Al Qaeda quickly regroup in Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere,

What perhaps began as an effort to destroy alleged Al Qaeda training camps in that Afghanistan, quickly morphed into an attack not on Al Qaeda, most of which organizations forces, including founder Osama bin Laden, quickly fled to the safety of neighboring Pakistan, but rather on the Taliban government, which to this day has never attacked the United States, but only United States forces inside their country. It is a response which should properly be called "national defense" against an invading power.

Almost from the beginning then, the United States war on Afghanistan and the occupation of its main cities by United States forces and a puppet Afghan military trained and funded by the United States, was a criminal act of imperialist aggression and occupation, aimed at giving the United States control of a country strategically located between Iran, China and Pakistan and blessed with vast stores of valuable minerals.

If President Biden were correct in saying the United States war objective in Afghanistan had been met, there would be no justification (nor is there) for bombing the Taliban as they retake power in the country. It is their country, they fought to get the United States out, and now they have won, or will win, bombings or no bombings.

One wonders, as we pass that sad 76th anniversary of another pointless and monstrously deadly bombing - the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the last days of Imperial Japan - whether like that horrific war crime, this criminal bombing of Afghanistan is actually aimed at another country far from Afghanistan.

Could it be that just as President Truman, in vaporising several hundred thousand Japanese civilians, was actually "sending a message" to the Soviet Union that the United States had a super weapon and was ready to use it again, this new fit of imperial pique by Commander in Chief Biden was aimed, perhaps, at China - a message that the United States was not to be pushed around in the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait.

Trumans message had little impact on Soviet behavior, simply encouraging the USSR to double down on getting its own atom bomb before the United States could build enough of its new super weapon to launch a treacherous pre-emptive nuclear blitz on its wartime ally. President Bidens message, if that is what it was, to China will be similarly ignored, particularly as, unlike the Taliban, China has the defensive weapons to easily take down any B-52 that might dare to venture into Chinese airspace.

The real losers in this display of bombastic bravado by President Biden and the United States are the Afghani people being killed for nothing and also the people of the United States who have to continue spending one-third of the federal discretionary budget annually on arms and war to enable such killing and bravado.

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