In the public interest.
I send my condolences to the Afghan civilians who endured endless abuse. Whose country was taken over by extremism in the form of the Mongols, the British, the Russians, Taliban and the US military who believed they were fighting against terrorism. This is where empires come to die.
Terrorism cannot remove terrorism.
Blind obedience is not loyalty. It is ignorance.
Following orders was dismissed as a reason for abuse at Nuremberg, Germany.
Militaries are not defending the people but powerful interests who care nothing for any people. They are fighting for those in power on both sides.
All people are our people. That is the voice of peace that many people say they are defending. War is not peace.
This article reveals a soldier’s perspective on leaving Afghanistan. Whenever I contemplate US politics – Biden and Harris – the image of them leaving extremists in power to kill civilians revealed the true face and hand.
Today the public are experiencing that you cannot ignore fascism in all its forms. The need for control is the real dis-ease. It is the one who has not found peace in letting go of control. Believing when they get total control they find peace. They never do. As peace is not about stopping opposition, it is about releasing truth. Opposition can’t be irradicated, it can only be understood and no longer supported. Nonviolence and non-cooperation is the only way to remove entrenched power.
To know thyself and be true is the purpose of the times we are going through.
It is not a failed strategy. It is a failed state by corruption that feels no empathy for those it harms. Soldiers are taught to kill women and children which is why so many end up with PTSD. Violence is the greatest weakness in the human condition as it believes the enemy is outside when committing atrocities. The greatest strength is to stand defenceless and say no. In this case that would be within the ranks.
I remember Hacksaw Ridge – this is the real heroism that is called cowardice. Men have been lied to about violence, it solves nothing, it only adds to violent mentalities that know no peace. I’ll post the video below for soldiers to deeply feel. We all have to change. I send them love not guilt. You have to learn the manipulation that has been done in the name of peace.
Marine who survived Afghanistan suicide bombing speaks out about failed strategy
August 14, 2023, Spencer Irvine, 0 Comments
It has been nearly two years since the U.S. military withdrew in hasty, haphazard fashion from Afghanistan and many questions have been left unanswered. Some of these questions have been answered by a U.S. Marine, Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who survived the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport on August 26, 2021.
Thirteen other U.S. servicemembers died in the attack at Abbey Gate at the airport. News reports said that ISIS took responsibility for the deadly attack.
On the Shawn Ryan Show, which is a long-form interview style podcast run by former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA operator Shawn Ryan, Vargas-Andrews discussed a wide range of topics related to his deployment and subsequent near-fatal injuries in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Vargas-Andrews, who lost his right arm and left leg in the attack, was frank about how the Biden administration mishandled the withdrawal from the start. Here are four of the notable stories he shared during the podcast interview:
- Upon deployment in Afghanistan, Vargas-Andrews and his team were not allowed to directly engage the Taliban near the airport. These “rules of engagement” prevented U.S. military servicemembers from protecting civilians who were getting singled out and beaten by members of the Taliban near their location. He saw a number of civilians murdered in cold blood and that he could not do anything about it or he would have been disobeying orders.
- Like others, Vargas-Andrews pointed out the lack of a secure security perimeter for Karzai Airport and how shipping containers separated U.S. military servicemembers from civilians and the Taliban. The lack of hardened security counter-measures, which could not have been said of the abandoned Bagram airbase, put American lives at risk and ultimately cost 13 American lives.
- An Afghan woman was escorted from the airport back outside Abbey Gate and she tried to slit her own throat on the barbed wire fence because she believed that the Taliban would execute her. Escorting military servicemembers stopped her from committing suicide, but that experience stuck with Vargas-Andrews to this day.
- When he was hospitalized at Walter Reed in Bethesda, Maryland, President Joe Biden visited him and apparently tried to shake his hand. But the problem was that his hand was in a giant cast due to injuries suffered in the attack. Vargas-Andrews said, Right away, I remember him coming up to me trying to shake my hand, shake my right hand, and I look at him, and I’m like, ‘I don’t have an arm.’ My left arm is in this big a– cast with this giant orange f–king foam block around it. I’m completely immobile. All I can do is move my head.”
- Biden asked Vargas-Andrews, “What do you want?” To which, Vargas-Andrews said he responded, “What?” The Marine said that the question confused him because “I just got blown up. Just f–king saw my friends die next to me. Like, I just want to be myself.”
As Vargas-Andrews’ interview demonstrated, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal has lasting consequences, regardless of the mainstream media’s narrative (or outright blackout of Afghanistan-related news) and the rhetoric coming from the Biden administration.
Accuracy in Academia remembers the sacrifices of the fallen servicemembers from the attack:
- U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal David L. Espinoza, age 20
- USMC Sergeant Nicole L. Gee, age 23
- USMC Staff Sergeant Darin T. Hoover, age 31
- U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss, age 23
- USMC Corporal Hunter Lopez, age 22
- USMC Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum, age 20
- USMC Lance Corporal Dylan R. Merola, age 20
- USMC Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui, age 20
- USMC Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo, age 25
- USMC Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez, age 22
- USMC Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz, age 20
- U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, age 22
- USMC Corporal Daegan W. Page, age 23
To watch the interview, watch the video below or click the link here.
This is the heroes journey. It is the one who stands up against the crowd and is true to himself. In this case faith was the driver. The real soul-lessness, if there can be such a thing, is the belief there is no power that loves you. I can testify that there is. You are being urged to Know Yourself and drop the stories of war as peace and do the harder work of finding peace within. We need men who are non violent, not driven by coercive control and able to learn what selflessness means. Many women live this way and are the unseen heroes of our world, mostly unacknowledged. To care for people is not seen as exciting. Yet is it what ensures peace.
That is the sort of man I am waiting for. Love stays, reveals, heals and cares. He is not living for himself (selfishly). He speaks up when all call him or her a coward or useless eater. Does he or she exist. Yes. Everytime we choose love, we choose life. This earns respect and is the force for unity. You are me.
I ask the blind men who cannot see. Can you please stop killing us. We want to live. It is our time now.