Thread by @AsadRahim

I demonstrate that a 19-year-long occupation that's tried everything and won nothing must stay until it achieves something. We need more war until there is more peace, hence more war. Not leaving forever is not the same thing as staying forever.

In this essay I will-

https://twitter.com/MadihaAfzal/status/1316066593609265152

The trademark thing about the Bush-Cheney wars was using circular, bureaucratic language to finesse acts of war and death.

'Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.'
'Unknown knowns: things you know that you did not.'

Both Rumsfeld gems, harder to fall for in 2020.

This article goes on to argue that staying will help 'maintain the gains made in women’s rights, human rights, and democracy – all values we hold dear.'

Studies show 1 in 3 female soldiers were raped by their male colleagues while in US military service. aljazeera.com/features/2011/…

Which is to say that war – any war – cannot 'hold dear' women's rights or human rights or any rights by definition.

It would be smarter for American defence companies to swap out Brookings' Ivy League memos for Excel profit-and-loss sheets. Much cleaner, and more convincing.