The United States and its fallen puppet government in Kabul have committed crimes on par with anything the Taliban has ever done. The US has bombed hospitals<\/a>, dropped the biggest bomb<\/a> ever since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, supported death squads<\/a>, and in some months killed more civilians than the Taliban. There were some months where the US and the Afghan military it trained and equipped killed more civilians<\/a> than the Taliban. That\u2019s according to the United Nations. And since the Taliban itself were an offshoot of the CIA-sponsored Mujahedeen, it\u2019s not difficult to also lay partial blame for the group\u2019s atrocities on the US.<\/p>\n As I reported here<\/a> a few months ago, since then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s promise in 2011 that the United States would be leaving Afghanistan in 2014, the US dropped more than 25,000 bombs on the country.<\/p>\n Last year, what was supposed to be a US drone attack on a Taliban splinter group killed<\/a> 60 civilians.<\/p>\n The absurdly corrupt fallen puppet government of Afghanistan is no better, in 2019 killing 40 civilians<\/a> at a wedding.<\/p>\n These kinds of mass casualty attacks \u2014 terrorist attacks \u2014 barely got a mention in the mainstream media, which has mostly ignored Afghanistan entirely for about a decade.<\/p>\n Now, with the government effectively destroyed in what may be the quickest collapse of a state ever, the United States has left the country with a reminder for Afghans of who they really are, and US imperial stenographers are doing their best to cover up their crimes.<\/p>\n New article: Biden is going to keep Trump’s Taliban envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, a man who got his start in politics working on Operation Cyclone, which trained & armed the Mujahideen. Khalilzad has even tried to have himself installed as a ruler in Afghanistan https:\/\/t.co\/T3Bp230nb4<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) January 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ali Hashem, a reporter for Al-Jazeera, an outlet run by the Qatari monarchy which also hosted the negotiations with the Taliban that culminated in the US withdrawal, appears to be the first to share video of Afghan civilians gunned down at the airport in Kabul by US forces.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently there are casualties at Kabul international after US troops fired shots on desperate crowds who sought to flee the country on the last flights,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n Apparently there are casualties at Kabul international after US troops fired shots on desperate crowds who sought to flee the country on the last flights pic.twitter.com\/pNZcy402Em<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ali Hashem \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0647\u0627\u0634\u0645 (@alihashem_tv) August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Astute readers will notice his slick use of the passive voice. \u201cCasualties at Kabul international after US troops fired shots\u201d is a rather obtuse way of saying US troops gunned down fleeing civilians.<\/p>\n The framing of the sentence, if interpreted literally, doesn\u2019t tell us who shot these \u201ccasualties\u201d (which, by the way, can merely mean people were injured). In fact, it doesn\u2019t even tell us that they were even shot. One could read that sentence and just as easily conclude that maybe US troops fired shots at the Taliban and the Taliban then killed civilians, or civilians killed each other in a stampede.<\/p>\n None of that happened though. US troops murdered fleeing civilians.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal was quick to publish<\/a> an article on the slaughter but unsurprisingly also provided rhetorical cover for it.<\/p>\n\n
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