Over the past week, Afghanistan saw the 18 year anniversary of the 2001
US invasion, starting an occupation that continues to this day. This means every child in Afghanistan was born in a country at war, and has never known an Afghanistan at peace.
Having a war last that long has a lot of unfortunate consequences, as
the US and its allies will be deploying troops who weren’t even born
when the war began, to fight a war with no ending in sight.
High school students in Afghanistan see their country as having no
future without peace, seeing a state of non-war as a dream, but a dream
that many question if they’ll ever see.
UN reports have heavily documented violence committed against Afghan
children throughout the war, and between the constant danger and
corruption they’ve faced, Afghanistan’s youngest generation is likely to
have a long process of recovery even if a peace deal does come along.
That peace deal is looking less likely at this point, as the US and
Taliban had effectively already reached a deal, only for the US to ditch
the process and consider it “dead.” The deal still seems to be on the
table, as far as the Taliban is concerned, but whether it goes beyond
that remains to be seen.
You would have to say the same about the USA. In our case, however, we’ve had eighteen years of phony official narratives about 9/11 and nothing but transparent pretexts for war from the MSM. The MIC and the Zionist lobby have taken control of politics and the banksters are about to pull the plug on the US economy, this time destroying the dollar and driving most of the country into poverty not seen in the USA since the Great Depression.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fed-make-trump-new-herbert-hoover/5691459
Those Americans born less than eighteen years ago will wake up one day and realize that mommy and daddy are both out of a job and are about to lose the house. Our troops overseas will come straggling home to find they were defending a dream that never existed. The lack of social cohesion in our communities means anarchy and survival of the fittest. In many ways we are worse off than the Afghans as we have no ability to scrounge and fend for ourselves anymore. Once the supermarkets close down we’ll be eating our own grannies for sustenance. The rest of the world will sit in awe, shaking their heads at what we will have become…
The people of Iraq should feel so lucky. Imagine children in Iraq born around 1980. They were around 10 years old when the destruction of their country at our hands began in full earnest. Of course around 500,000 didn’t make it through their childhood thanks to our sanctions. And that’s also assuming the children that did make it through the sanctions and our two invasions don’t recollect the bloody war with Iran during their earliest years.