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Today the U.S. federal government is a mirror image of the Soviet Union in the 1980's, before its collapse. I take no delight in saying this, but both domestically and internationally, the federal government has transformed America from a Christian Republic to a secular empire which is indistinguishable from the Soviet Union. Notice the striking parallels between U.S. policy in Iraq and Soviet policy in Afghanistan during the 1980's:

[T]he Russians . . . pursued the very same strategy we are employing – installing a "secular" regime with ideological pretensions of being "democratic," aided by a small, Westernized, secular elite and an uneasy coalition of racial-religious minority groups. The result in our own case is doomed to be identical to that which befell the Russians and their Afghan sock puppets: utter defeat.
— Justin Raimondo

The U.S. is attempting to "rebuild" Afghanistan -- after bombing it relentlessly.

How would America's Founding Fathers undertake the task of rebuilding Afghanistan? (First of all they would reject this as a legitimate task for the government under the Constitution.)

Please see our page on Iraq for details on how a Christian nation like America should think about the subject of rebuilding a nation.

The federal government failed to protect the United States on 9-11. This was its most fundamental duty. This was the main reason the states created the federal government and bound themselves together under the Constitution in 1789.

But it's worse than mere failure. The federal government ignored the counsel of the great statesmen who created it. The original centerpiece of America's foreign policy was to become a "city upon a hill" and take advantage of its natural geographic safety to avoid the turmoil of conflicts across the ocean.

The federal government did not follow this advice in Afghanistan, Asia and Europe. "Insiders" -- the powerful architects of America foreign policy in the last 80 years (and I consider Presidents Bush and Obama to be more of a "puppet" than an "architect") -- completely reject the principles of America's Founding Fathers. The United States federal government built Al queda as a means of destabilizing the Soviet Union. The same federal government that failed to protect America on 9-11 did not appreciate the long-term dangers of giving military aid to Islamic terrorists thirty years ago when these terrorists were "freedom fighters" against Communism.

• America’s Pro-Terrorism Foreign-Aid Program
• Ghost Wars: How Reagan Armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan
• Why Washington Funded the Taliban in 2001
• How we trained al-Qa’eda

The CIA has learned nothing from it funding of Isalmo-fascist fundamentalists in Afghanistan. Today it is funding anti-AlQueda warlords in Somalia:

• CIA inadvertently creates some more Zarqawis in Africa

Here are links and more links on Afghanistan:

• How America Failed Afghan Women | The American Conservative
• Women's lives worse than ever - Independent.co.uk
• Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
• Exit Afghanistan and Leave Iran Alone by Sheldon Richman
• Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan by James Bovard
• CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan Eight Months before Justice Department Approval by Andy Worthington
• Get Out of Afghanistan and Everywhere Else by Jacob G. Hornberger
• Enough Is Enough in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger
• Immediately Withdraw from Afghanistan Too
• Afghanistan and Big Government
• Afghanistan News
• Another War-on-Terrorism Success Story in Afghanistan

There are no more Christian churches in Afghanistan thanks to U.S. intervention.