The Goal of the United States and NATO Invasion of Afghanistan

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March 30, 2022

The Goal Of Afghan War Is To Wash Money?

Afghanistan War 'Largely a Wealth Transfer' to Military Contractors, Says 'Black Swan' Author

Much like the "Covid Industrial Complex" of today, as the "Largest Wealth Transfer" in history, on August 21, 2021, the Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb weighed in on the situation in Afghanistan, describing it as "largely a wealth transfer from U.S. taxpayers to military contractors."

The comment adds to those from other observers who have zeroed in on the role of military contractors. Saqib Qureshi, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, wrote a recent Newsweek op-ed entitled "Taliban Didn't Win in Afghanistan, the Defense Contractors Did."

On Twitter, many responded to Taleb's post by noting that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in 2011, that the goal in Afghanistan "is to have an endless war not a successful war," in order to "wash money out of the tax bases of the United States... into the hands of the transnational security elite."

Taleb responded in a tweet, "I am not claiming conspiracy, just facts."

In 2009, The Sunday Times called The 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 most recent post on Afghanistan wasn't his first. On Wednesday, he compared the clarity of mind of a D.C. analyst examining the Afghanistan situation to a box of tangled wires. He also claimed that day that the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke was "The thinker most vindicated by Afghanistan: change that's not progressive, slow, & pragmatic ends up blowing up (Reflections on the Revolution in France)."

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https://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-war-largely-wealth-transfer-military-contractors-says-black-swan-author-1621772