Those watching the CIA broadcasts beamed out on the worlds
newsnetworks about the fall of Kabul can never fail remembering
another great victory of the Alliance more than ten years old against
another great enemy: Iraq.
After crushing Saddam so convincingly that no one ever heard of him
again, the Alliance went on to build the new world order with the
reborn theocratic sheikdom of oil rich Kuwait. Women were allowed to
vote and equal opportunities were introduced everywhere, alongside an
anti-racist curriculum allowing the Indian indentured labourers full
citizenship rights and voting rights for the first time in their
lives, taking into account all the hard work they did for the Kuwaiti
monarchs. There are benefits to western civilisation which everyone
ignores at their peril...

In years long gone during another great period of historical decline,
the twilight of the Roman Empire, Emperors organised their own mock
battles awarded their military leaders medals and declared the enemy
defeated. In those days tv images didn't exist and the news was more
for internal consumption to prop up a sagging and corrupted Empire
which had no reason to continue to exist, other that to serve the
needs of a ruling elite which had grown so parasitical that it enjoyed
games of physical torture of slaves to have a raison d'etre.

Our Roman legions will soon talk about the tremendous victory in
Afghanistan, the coming liberation of women from the murderous Taliban
and will proceed to start another war, this time with millions of
Arabs in the Middle East...

The new world order like the Roman Empire in decline, belives it can
pull it off with stories about penknives on planes and cavedwellers
with nuclear bombs. For those with no sense of the past they have
already. For the millions of dispossed with no access to
'civilisation' one can only recall that the Roman Empire is no more.
It was buried under the myth of its own invincibility perpetuated by
mock battles whose worth proved nothing when the end dawned upon it.
One shouldn't expect it to be different this time.