Black Swan On Saturday, writer Nasim Nicholas Taleb Weighing Regarding the situation in Afghanistan, it was described as “mainly a transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to military contractors.”
This comment complements the comments of other observers who are concerned about the role of military contractors.Saqib Qureshi, a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics wrote an article recent Weekly newspaper Column Titled “Taliban Without winning in Afghanistan, the defense contractor did. “
exist TwitterMany people responded to Taleb’s post, stating WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange It was said many years ago that Afghanistan’s goal “is an endless war, not a successful war” to “launder the money in the US tax base… into the hands of transnational security elites.”
Taleb responded in a tweet: “I’m not claiming a conspiracy, it’s just facts.”
in 2009, this Sunday Times Call Black Swan One of the 12 books that changed the world. In it, Taleb outlines the impact of unpredictable events and how people try to find explanations and reasoning for them.
Taleb’s latest post on Afghanistan is not his first. On Wednesday, he compared the clear mind of a DC analyst checking the situation in Afghanistan to a box of tangled wires.he still claim That day, the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke was “the thinker most defended by Afghanistan: unprogressive, slow and pragmatic changes will eventually fail (Reflections on the French Revolution).”
Many Afghans are trying to flee their country, which has fallen under the control of the Taliban in the criticized U.S. withdrawal.pass Last weekAfter that, the United States made efforts to quickly evacuate embassy personnel and Afghans who have helped Americans in the 20-year war.
Pictures and videos circulating on social media showed that thousands of people poured into the tarmac of Kabul International Airport, some of them Close to the U.S. military aircraft during takeoff.
President Monday Joe BidenIn his first speech on the situation in Afghanistan, he insisted that his decision to withdraw US troops was correct.
He said: “The U.S. army cannot and should not fight and die in a war where the Afghan army is unwilling to fight for themselves.” “We have given them every opportunity to determine their own future. We cannot provide them to fight for that future. Wishes.”
on Wednesday, He said In the interview ABC The US military can get as many women as possible out of Afghanistan, but warns against using force to resolve women’s rights.
When weighing whether the Taliban poses a threat to the United States, Biden said: “Syria poses a much greater threat to the United States. The threat to East Africa is much greater… We have no army in Syria to make to ensure that we will be protected.”
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