did my video on Afghanistan falling so quickly yesterday at 3:18 CST, 4:18 EST.
(See time stamp below)
Here is the link.
Why did Afganistan fall so quick?
This was on NPR a few hours later, 5:45 EST to be exact:
The U.S. ignored corruption within the Afghan government. Did that lead to its fall?
"Sarah Chayes covered the fall of the Taliban after 9/11 for NPR. She then started and ran several NGOs in the country. She served as adviser to several senior U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan and then to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
She is the author of several books. The most recent is "On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake."
Excertps from the interview follow
Sarah Chayes:
In simple terms, why would a population take risks to fight the Taliban on behalf of a government that is treating them almost as badly as the Taliban do?
So, Afghan government officials would shake people down at every interaction. The massive international funding that was arriving in the country was being siphoned off or captured by government officials and their cronies.
And from Afghans' perspective, it almost looked like the United States was in favor of this system, because our officials were always seen partnering with these venal Afghan leaders. And no matter how much the population complained, they really couldn't get us to address the serious — the issues seriously.
William Brangham:
What role did the U.S.' actions play in this? Did we hinder the corruption? Did we help the corruption? Did we try to stop the corruption?
Sarah Chayes:
I would say that, toward 2009-2010, we began to catch on to this as a serious issue. And so a decision was made to do a test case, with plenty of evidence. It was brilliantly mounted, and it had to do with a haul of approximately $900 million in Kabul Bank, right?
So we're talking a significant issue here. And the person targeted who was taking a bribe was in the palace, was close to President Karzai. Well, as soon as President Karzai threw a fit about the arrest from his henchman, warrants executed a U-turn, and the U.S. never took corruption seriously after that. That was in 2010.
"So, from my perspective, there was a real dereliction of duty on the part of civilian leaderships in the United States."
William Brangham:
Another factor in the essay that you posted was the role that Pakistan played in all of this.
Can you explain? For people who are not familiar with the dynamics between the two nations, what role did Pakistan play?
Sarah Chayes:
The Taliban did not initially arise inside Afghanistan the way we have often heard, in 1994.
The Taliban were, in fact, basically concocted across the border in Pakistan. At that time, Afghanistan was a pretty chaotic, violent place, because it was after the Soviets had withdrawn and there were a lot of different PTSD-suffering militia commanders who were shooting at each other.
And Pakistan was very interested in the long-distance trade routes that crossed Afghanistan. And it was really hard to get convoys, get goods across the country. And so their idea for how to secure their own interests, which both were in trade and were in having some what is often called strategic depth with respect to India, right?
Like, India is their big rival, and they wanted a little bit of room behind them and control over territory and population. So they came up with this idea of Taliban. And they actually market-tested it. And I know this from interviews with locals over a number of years.
Golly, wouldn't you — how would you feel about some religious students coming to bring this violence to a stop? And, frankly, people said, anything, you know?
William Brangham:
This was Pakistani military intelligence doing this?
Sarah Chayes:
That's exactly right.
And then, in 2003, I watched them begin reconstituting the Taliban. So, Pakistan was playing — or the Pakistani military intelligence agency was playing this remarkable double game with the United States, where they were playing at being our ally and helping us conduct operations, but they were also essentially arming, equipping, training, and directing the Taliban.
And if you look today at the reactions from Pakistani officials, I mean, they are crowing about the current results, the current outcome.
Do I honestly look like an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of staff? How then am I able to say almost verbatim the same things that somebody who was did? Before they said it? This isn't the first time, its happened before and has been documented right here, saying things and then an ex-president, a university chancellor, a FED vice chair, Generals, Counter-intelligence officials etc...go on to say a short time later.
I just got lucky all those times? That's your argument? The odds of somebody being that lucky so many times are extremely slim to say the least.
My argument is this:
It's God Grace through the spiritual gift of prophecy being shown to you right in front of your eyes and you would be wise to understand and accept it.
It's why when I say things about quantum computers running AI going to manifest itself as the Antichrist you should listen. Proof is in the pudding as they say. This is a pretty definitive example right here, this time line of my video and her interview on NPR.
Oh and it was just the Afgans who were corrupt right?
"...And from Afghans' perspective, it almost looked like the United States was in favor of this system, because our officials were always seen partnering with these venal Afghan leaders..."
Well why would we be in favor of a system like that?
To turn a blind eye to it is to be complicit. Kinda hard to convince me it didn't run a lot deeper than that.
We are here, who are who we are (Revelation 11) and you would be wise to acknowledge such and the time we are approaching.
I love you baby.
TTYS
