US Ponders Afghan Threat, Forgetting Decades of US Threat
Al Jazeera reports a shooting near the White House, with the suspect identified as an Afghan national, sparking immediate speculation about the 77,000 Afghans relocated to the US. This rapid shift to collective suspicion, echoing post-9/11 fear-mongering, conveniently glosses over the two decades of US military intervention that created many of these refugees in the first place. Instead of
reflecting on the destabilization caused by the US's 20-year war in Afghanistan—which directly led to the displacement of these individuals—the discourse quickly frames them as potential threats. The same corporate media outlets that cheered on the 'Global War on Terror' (costing trillions and creating humanitarian crises) now express 'concern' about its human fallout. One might wonder why the
architects of such foreign policy are rarely scrutinized with the same intensity as those fleeing its consequences.