Americans were by and large willing to put up with a lot of fucking bloodshed.

Oh God, they were demanding just in the blood letting in the streets.

Yeah. And I was I was 21. I was young and I was one of the few like anti boy people.

I read a lot of Nome Chomsky and

Chomsky said a lot of things in the meet up to that. One of the things he said was

that it would be a humanitarian disaster check. Yeah. He said that it would be a

huge waste of money and resources check. He said that it would be a huge waste of money and resources check.

He said it would kill a bunch of Americans and a ton of Afghans check.

And he also said that it was going to bring more terrorism.

So like up and down the line, you know, every single one of those things has happened. But again, there's no reckoning with that whatsoever. There's no sense that like, oh, maybe we need to rethink all of our precepts about the war on terror or what the valid use of American power is going to be or even like the fact that

America's ability at this point in time to like even like prop up its own allies like the UK the Brits are

fucking pissed right now we left them in the fucking lurch let along the Ukrainian

and apparently so I just found out just just came out

that it was just leaked I guess from the White House or the Pentagon that the Brits

are why that the suicide bombing was allowed to happen at the airport

which that just looks like we're actually just going to a war in the press with our own ally which yeah you don't really want that

ideally when you're you know trying to put together a you're trying to hold together a international, you know, imperial project.

It's, it's, I mean, people know this. We've talked about it before.

Talked about it for ages, but American power is not built solely on brute force.

There's different legs to this stool.

One of them is the ability to do untold violence across the globe.

Do things like, you know, murder, Afghan civilians over and over and over again for 20 years like

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