Afghanistan: Colonialism and Nihilism

“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader

Just take a long, hard, look at Afghanistan and see how twenty years of Western military involvement, a Colonial expedition in all but name — has built nothing. Absolutely nothing. All Empires leave something behind. Colossal buildings and monuments or statues or place-names of the colonial conquerors, infrastructure such as roads and aqueducts, but, in Afghanistan the Empires of the West leave behind only bitterness, hatred and death. This will haunt America and Britain for a very very long time.

Colonialism never went away, it only metamorphised into the stopping of Communism and then, Terrorism. Sweeping terms that have been used and are still being used for a calculated policy of geopolitical manouevering everywhere and anywhere on the globe. In fact, these inflated constructs have become a casus belli. Period.

Afghanistan was the scapegoat in America’s obsession with Bin-Laden and revenge for the atrocity of 9/11. But, not only that, Afghanistan would be a means to another end — the attack upon Iran that has been exciting the American Military-Industrial-Complex for over forty years. Finally…