Afghanistan Is Not The White Woman’s Burden

You can’t bomb feminism into people

indi.ca
3 min readAug 20, 2021

American mission creep has gotten creepy. Now they’re saying they invaded Afghanistan for the women. To liberate them of course. They just told us last week, but that was the plan the whole time. Like every other mission they’ve declared, it’s a bald-faced lie.

America gives a fuck about any human being Afghanistan. They ran Afghans over with their warplanes on the way out. They evacuated dogs before people. America killed over 240,000 people in two decades of war, many of them women and children. Afghanistan was just a place to hit after 9/11 and then they kept hitting it, like a cash register.

America bombed that country for 20 years, moving trillions of dollars from their own taxpayers pockets to the arms dealers’ purse. Over $6.4 trillion has been spent on America’s terror wars since 2001. The US media made billions on the advertising rights, and they can’t stop. Even after losing, they’re still selling war.

First it was fighting terrorism, then it was spreading democracy, and now it’s somehow feminism. Whatever gets taxpayers to open their wallets for the endless, bloody grift. Now they’re using women’s rights to sell war the same way Philip Morris used women’s rights to sell Virginia Slims.”You’ve come along way baby.” Now smoke…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.