U. S. Readies Permanent Occupation of Afghanistan

Actually Permanent Occupation of Kabul

The Korean war has never ended, despite an agreement in 1953. The United States has a permanent base in South Korea and will have it for decades to come.

In 2001 the U. S. started its war in Afghanistan. Now it is preparing for a permanent occupation of that country. But unlike Korea, the occupation will not be all of the country. It will be of the city of Kabul.

. . . the boundaries of the Green Zone will be redrawn to include that base, known as the Kabul City Compound, formerly the headquarters for American Special Operations forces in the capital. The zone is separated from the rest of the city by a network of police, military and private security checkpoints.

The expansion is part of a huge public works project that over the next two years will reshape the center of this city of five million to bring nearly all Western embassies, major government ministries, and NATO and American military headquarters within the protected area.

What is happening is that Kabul will become a city state, although actually it has already become a city state. The countryside will belong to the tribes, the Taliban, Al-Queda and whoever else wants to live there. Eventually though the empire collapses, the cost of occupying a country 10,000 miles or so away will be too much and Kabul will be given back to the Afghan people. What that will be, who knows?