Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
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Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
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#2Key figures in US military and US leadership need to be held accountable. Same as with CEOs, if you only punish the organization and not specifically the leaders, there is no disincentive to doing it again.
Clearly the US is exempt from the war crimes laws, and that needs to change. But it would require leaders of other major powers/countries to push for this.
But… this will never happen because almost no leader wants to be held accountable, and thus they will never vote against their peers.
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#3Abby Martin from Empire Files made a beautiful video about the war in Afghanistan:
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#4> One shocking parts of the book is learning about proven terrorists get released before Adayfi
I know I shouldn't expect more from the grauniad but this is pretty hard to parse.
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#5Will not, because that makes US (or specifically Biden's admin) looks weak, not good when the theme of the new admin is "America is back!". I even consider the possibility of next conflict will be higher, US needs to shed its "Vietnam syndrome" swiftly and they need some quick victory similar to the 1st gulf war.
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#6they could have won the war in 2 years instead of losing the war in 20. all they had to do was target the taliban leadership in pakistan instead of their foot soldiers in the vast mountains of afghanistan.
Re: Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
#7Key figures in US military and US leadership need to be held accountable. Same as with CEOs, if you only punish the organization and not specifically the leaders, there is no disincentive to doing it again. Clearly the US is exempt from the war crimes laws, and that needs to change. But it would require leaders of other major powers/countries to push for this. But… this will never happen because almost no leader want…
> Clearly the US is exempt from the war crimes laws, and that needs to change.
The US is not exempt from laws relating to war crimes. While it is not a member of the ICC, it is bound to the laws of war as is any other state.
Re: Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
#8Key figures in US military and US leadership need to be held accountable. Same as with CEOs, if you only punish the organization and not specifically the leaders, there is no disincentive to doing it again. Clearly the US is exempt from the war crimes laws, and that needs to change. But it would require leaders of other major powers/countries to push for this. But… this will never happen because almost no leader want…
Very few countries are active war mongers, so it might actually be possible to assemble a bloc to try making US accountable. It probably wouldn’t be possible to go after prime perpetrators, but it might be possible to at least start extracting low key figures and put them on trial in a way that US cannot interfere with.
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#9they could have won the war in 2 years instead of losing the war in 20. all they had to do was target the taliban leadership in pakistan instead of their foot soldiers in the vast mountains of afghanistan.
"The Taliban has fought against the US and the Kabul state for two decades in the face of casualties that would have shattered the morale and recruitment of almost any other army. The Vietnamese communists are the only parallel I can think of – and indeed, the Taliban may have learned the importance of discipline and organisation indirectly from communism.
There are provinces in Afghanistan where five Taliban governors in a row have been killed – and yet a new volunteer for the position has always stepped forward. This marks a striking contrast with all previous religiously inspired Pashtun tribal uprisings, which grew rapidly but also collapsed quickly after the first major defeat."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2021.1...
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#10> After 20 years during which he was routinely tortured, Mansoor Adayfi, who now lives in Serbia, asks: ‘What if that had been American boys?’
Well judging by the way the regime changed its tune from war against terror to war against white supremacy, it will probably be the turn of the american boys to suffer