The Legacy in Afghanistan: a Corrupt Narco State
Have the leaders of the Western nations learned the lessons of the recent past or are our nations just repeating history to our ruin? In the past decade have our military, political and social policies been informed by mistakes of the past, so we can chart a new course or are we continuing to walk in crooked paths?
The prophet Isaiah was inspired to write:
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
Isaiah 59
So instead of stumbling along crooked paths, what should have been learned by Western leaders from their forays into the Middle East and what are the lessons for us in 2026?
As of 2014 the Afghanistan War “ended,” the longest overseas military intervention in U.S. history wound down. It would be wise to reflect on what had been accomplished and at what cost. Over $1 TRILLION had been spent fighting this war, including more than $100 BILLION spent on so-called Afghani “re-construction” projects— an amount, when adjusted for inflation, that was greater than all the money spent on the Marshall Plan that successfully re-built Western Europe’s economy following WWII—according to Joe Sopko, the U.S. government’s special inspector-general for Afghanistan.
The cost in blood in Afghanistan to the Western military coalition was 3,485 killed in action. So, after all this expenditure in blood and treasure what are the results? What kind of legacy did the U.S. and its western allies like Canada leave for the future? According to Matthieu Atkins, a Kabul-based Canadian journalist, the Western allies are leaving behind a corrupt, violent Narco state.* Afghanistan now produces almost the entire world’s supply of opium, the raw material drug traffickers refine into the illegal, highly addictive heroin sold on our streets! In essence. An intervention that was designed to thwart the deadly impact of Islamic fundamentalism—which has killed over 320,000 civilians in the Middle East and N. Africa since 2000—has not solved the issue of Islamic terrorism and has left in its wake another tragedy.
The U.S. and its allies have merely shifted the threat in the West and not solved the issues in the Middle East.
How so? Just consider that the annual body count from heroin overdoses in the USA alone is more than 4,000 people! Year in, year out more people are dying from the botched U.S. intervention in Afghanistan than died just once from the 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorists. How ironic! Instead of making the world a more peaceful, safe, and better place, our Western leaders have made it worse and even greatly compounded the problem by leaving Afghanistan as a corrupt Narco state, that is now complicit in the enslavement and destruction of the lives of millions through their drug trafficking.
As the prophets wrote so long ago:
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind
(Hosea 8:7 KJV).
Childish leaders oppress my people,
and creditors or usurers, rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you;
they send you down the wrong road.
(Isaiah 3:12NLT).
Is there hope for peace in the future?
As we approach the beginning of the fall festival season, the Feast of Trumpets reminds us of the coming of Christ and the establishment of his righteous rulership and of the end of war and destruction.
He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:4
Learn more about prophecy and the promises that God will fulfill in the future as they relate to the Feast of Trumpets:
https://cogwebcast.com/sermons/feast-of-trumpets-yom-teruah-2026/
Links: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/12/22/narco-state-matthieu-aikins/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/14be0e0c-8255-11e4-ace7-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/12/22/narco-state-matthieu-aikins/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/14be0e0c-8255-11e4-ace7-00144feabdc0.html
https://search.brave.com/search?q=deaths+due+to+islamic+jihad+since+2000&source=desktop&conversation=09838b3fc3dbcbbabc64f59d6a4d4df4bc2f&shared=1
