This article was originally published in Danish on September 2, 2021.
The West’s obvious and humiliating defeat at the hands of a gang of religious fanatics and illiterates in Afghanistan has prompted many comments and reflections. It is time for self-examination. What were we actually doing in this distant and irrelevant country that has brought so many empires to their knees?
It began with Al Qaeda, whose role in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York is open to debate, as there are many unanswered questions. My guess is that those truly responsible for it are to be found somewhere else entirely on the map, but that is, of course, speculation to some extent. The fact that it took several years to find and kill Osama bin Laden was in itself a bad sign, and such an organization—if it exists and has the strength it is claimed to have—does not stand or fall with a single man. The Americans have claimed that they have destroyed Al Qaeda. If Al Qaeda really exists, this is doubtful. But what then?
Well, America, and with it the whole of NATO, decided that Afghanistan should be colonized and its population enriched with our sick “democratic” values and that women’s “freedom” should be secured. Just as the Soviet Union wanted to enrich the whole world with its social system. There is no difference. Any reasonably intelligent person could see for themselves that this would be a death sentence. Democracy requires an enlightened population – which we no longer have – and, above all, a desire to adopt our values just like that. That willingness was not there. A recent opinion poll from Afghanistan says that 99% of the population wants an Islamist system based on Sharia law. Now, democratic principles dictate that these 99% should get their way – right? But no, they had to be bombed into being “democrats,” that is, into following the 1% and oppressing the 99%. Such a project cannot succeed. The shameful thing is not so much that America gave up on it, but that it did not ask its allies for their opinion and that it left behind its bases and all the equipment it had given to the “government army,” which existed only on paper. The Taliban is therefore now in possession of an enormous arsenal of weapons with which it will be able to threaten and destabilize the entire region. It is not for nothing that Russia has hastily sent troops to Tajikistan! It is a relatively weak state, and many Afghans are ethnic Tajiks and speak Tajik…
The Danish people have probably never had any desire to wage war in Afghanistan. From the outset, it was Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s personal project. He wanted to curry favor with the US so that he could become Secretary General of NATO—and so that his son could more easily become a US citizen—but the press obediently sold it to the Danish people as a fight for freedom and democracy in Afghanistan, as if it were any of our business. It has cost many young Danes their lives or their mobility, and now they are naturally left with a bitter taste in their mouths, while the government tries to reassure them that it was all worth it. Without, however, being able to point to a single positive result that could justify these sacrifices. And that’s not even mentioning the billions of kroner this adventure has cost, which could have been used to improve the lives of the most vulnerable Danes, such as pensioners.
What has shocked me the most is not the politicians’ lies and Rasmussen’s abuse of Danish lives to further his career. I realized long ago that politicians are latent criminals who take every opportunity to line their own pockets and strengthen their own pathological lust for power. There is nothing new in that. Hopefully, they will end up creating work for an entire army of executioners when the time comes. No, what shook me the most was this week’s featured article in Jyllands-Posten on August 29, 2021, written by Nicola Sandra Voss, journalist and press officer at the NGO Girltalk—yet another parasitic organization that I am sure has its snout deep in the public coffers. She describes a conversation with a friend who was stationed in Afghanistan. He called her, his voice choked with tears, after much hesitation to tell her “that he had done it.” What had he done? Well, he had shot an enemy – dead. He was completely distraught. Here was a “trained combat soldier. A platoon leader and dedicated to the fight for freedom” who couldn’t get over the fact that he had killed an opponent who, without batting an eyelid, would have blown him straight into the lap of the Lord. Of course, he ended up being diagnosed with PTSD, of course.
We must hope that we never need our army to defend this country, because then we are lost. It is the soldier’s job to kill enemy soldiers – or even better, to maim them, because that costs the enemy far more than simply killing them. I don’t know what criteria are used to select soldiers for deployment. I have to assume that they send the best ones. That’s how far we’ve come in the destruction of our people. They are no longer capable of fighting – and it would hardly be any different if the fighting took place in Southern Jutland. We see how rampaging immigrant gangs attack innocent people without anyone fighting back – neither the victims themselves nor the people around them. They just hurry away. Everyone ducks. We are doomed.
Nicola thinks we have failed the soldiers. We should probably have had two psychologists for every soldier. She also believes that we failed the Afghans, whom we had come to “help.” Help? We saw in the endgame how things really were. Everyone changed sides in a fraction of a second. The Afghans did not want to fight for a different society themselves – not even the “government army” and the so-called government, which hastily fled to Qatar. As long as they could earn a very princely salary and pocket large sums of money through corruption by assisting the coalition – at least during the day, while they may have been Taliban at night – they were happy with the “help.” Then they simply switched sides.
Yes, I do believe that this kind of deployment wears down the troops. They are probably the first to see the futility of it all. Our politicians are simply too stupid and driven by a despicable master race mentality. We alone know what is best for the Afghans! Afghanistan is a good example of a multi-ethnic society. There is no glue to hold it together. What we will see in the coming years is an ever-increasing disintegration of the country, with each ethnicity and each clan fighting to gain its own territory. The many American weapons left behind will make it a particularly bloody affair.
At the same time, we will see an ever-increasing flow of “refugees,” some of whom will come to Europe as a well-trained partisan army whose purpose will be to assist in the takeover of our countries. We have just seen how 45 interpreters turned into over 1,000 people. And we have even more family reunifications to look forward to. However, let us keep one thing in mind in this regard. It was not the Afghans—interpreters or whatever they were—who helped Denmark—fought for Denmark, I have even seen—it was Denmark that helped them. We owe them nothing, on the contrary. Austria already has many Afghans. They top the crime statistics, and there is no reason to believe that the same will not be the case here.
If you want to solve “the Afghan problem,” it can only be done with the help of appropriately sized atomic bombs. However, the real problem in this context is also our politicians. No punishment is harsh and cruel enough for them!
Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Danmarks Frihedsraad 