By Steve Otto
As US
troops
pull out of Afghanistan we can instantly see the failure of US nation
building policies. Whether president Joe Biden expected it or not, the US puppet
regime is quickly falling to the Taliban. The Taliban are quickly taking over the
country.
The Taliban are not popular with much
of anyone outside of Afghanistan
or outside of the US.
They are not favored by the left here in the US
or in Afghanistan.
The US tried to revive
earlier factions that ran Afghanistan,
hoping they could build popular support for them and their foreign occupiers.
Liberal Democrats here in the US
like to point out that the Taliban have a terrible human rights record when it
comes to women. It is true that many women were kept out of the education
system under the Taliban. The west made a hero of Malala
Yousafzai, a young woman who stood up to the Taliban. She was a hero. She
did stand up to a repressive political force. But any one who is made a hero by
US
imperialism is doomed to failure in their own country.
This reminds me of the collapse of the
Khmer Rouge when the Vietnamese invaded. All the people I talked to had to
admit that there was no popular support for the government run by Pol Pot when
it fell so quickly.
Just as in South
Vietnam we see that this government has also lost any
support it may have had from the Afghanistan people. Such nation
building was doomed to failure. That is especially true in a country that has
been continually invaded by one superpower after the other.
Now —finally after all these years, we can finally realize
that national sovereignty is not something we can artificially create. People
have to develop their own systems of government. Afghanistan has proven that.
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