The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday April 18th, 2023
Calculated Misrepresentations: The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Succeeding administrations have a chronic habit of blaming their predecessors. The Biden administration has been most particular on the issue, taking every chance to attack former President Donald Trump for the ills of his tenure. But the effort to almost exclusively lay blame at Trump’s door for the US fiasco in Afghanistan was a rich one indeed, given the failings of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations in that historically doomed theatre of conflict.
Revolutions, Leon Trotsky remarked, are always verbose. But so are failed wars, military campaigns and invasions. The greater the failure, the weightier the verbosity from the apologists. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, as befitting his title, is just the man for the task.
In announcing the findings of the Biden administration into the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, Kirby proved infuriatingly bureaucratic, his address addled by management speak. “As you all know,” he told a White House press conference, “over these many months, departments and agencies key to the withdrawal conducted thorough, internal after-action reviews, each of them examining their decision-making processes, as well as how those decisions were executed.”
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Old Boxes #poem by Jan Sand
“We have mathematics in our attics where we can store
Propositions of all conditions that exist
And everything that came before.
Eternity sits in dust declaring all that must perform,
Gyrations of reality in every conceivable locality
From sub-atomic quarks to the nuclear convulsions
Within cosmic emulsions whirling in the curls of gravitation.”
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Ephemera #85 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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