Ted Rall: 9/11 has nothing to do with Afghanistan (4/8/2021)

(4/8/2021)

9/11 has nothing to do with Afghanistan By Ted Rall

Ted Rall is a brave political cartoonist to the left of the Democratic Party who got on the nerves of too many people. Mainstream media has basically shut him down, meanwhile threatening him with oppressive lawsuits. Undaunted, Ted continues to write articles for what he believes in. This comment is not meant to denigrate Ted or his work, but tries to call a spade a spade. 

Peter's Comment:
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Invading Afghanistan was a mistake? Sorry Ted, not nearly good enough. It was a crime. What is America going to learn? That in future wars they will never allow the truth to slip out, that's what. Look what happened after the Vietnam War. The Military Industrial Complex learned how to corrupt the free press. Now Americans live and die in the cesspool of misinformation, false narratives, and war propaganda. If America really wants to learn, then (1) stop funding the MIC; (2) stop giving power and impunity to the war-mongers; (3) severely punish and fine the mainstream media and free press, including owners, CEOs, editors, and journalists, for working as the propaganda arm of the war-mongers; make it a criminal offense and confiscate their properties; (4) set up monuments to remind us of the war crimes and atrocities committed in our name; (5) make full and long term reparations to individual victims and the nations attacked and sanctioned; (6) severely punish all those war-mongers and their lap-dogs/bull-dogs, especially the decision makers including politicians and elected officials, who have committed or are culpable of crimes and atrocities against humanity; take away everything they own and throw them into an oubliette. Make statues of the chief criminals kneeling in front of their victim's monuments showing everlasting contrition, and allow righteous people to spit on them. Then maybe they'll learn something. Come on Ted, I had expected a lot more from you.