The Pretended End of War in Afghanistan — Josef Goebbels Had Nothing on Our Own Ability to Lie

© 2014 Peter Free

 

29 December 2014

 

 

American society has become so hypocritically inured to deception — that we are not embarrassed by telling monumental untruths

 

 

The war in Afghanistan is over ‘cause Barack said so.

 

Just like there are reportedly no American boots currently in harm’s way in Iraq and Syria:

 

 

The war in Afghanistan, fought for 13 bloody years and still raging, came to a formal end Sunday with a quiet flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul that marked the transition of the fighting from U.S.-led combat troops to the country's own security forces.

 

Beginning Jan. 1, the new mission will provide training and support for Afghanistan's military, with the U.S. accounting for almost 11,000 of the 13,500 members of the residual force.

 

© 2014 Lynne O’Donnell, U.S. Formally Ends War In Afghanistan, Huffington Post (28 September 2014)

 

 

What’cha can’t see won’t hurt’cha

 

Not content with the American public already not giving “a shit” about US troop deployments abroad, Government is increasingly pretending that our people aren’t even there.

 

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has pretty much arrived.

 

 

Burying truth is not so bad — is it?

 

We can still go to the mall and do all the other stuff we like to do. Big Daddy keeps us safe.

 

After all:

 

 

“Them” military guys volunteered for the Nonstop Meat Grinder.

 

An’ who gives a shit about brownish "furriners" anyway?

 

All is well in Muh-Rica Land.

 

 

The moral? — Josef Goebbels would be proud of how things turned out

 

And Chairman Mao must be chuckling, fondling his little red book.

 

Corruption is so easy to pass on.