Washington's Holy War
Dear America,
We need to talk.
You think you're the good guys, don't you? You believe your government spreads democracy, fights terrorism, and makes the world safer. You've been told that your relationship with unsavory characters is regrettable but necessary—the price of operating in a messy world where perfect choices don't exist.
I'm writing to tell you that everything you believe about your foreign policy is a lie.
Your government isn't fighting terrorism—it's the world's largest sponsor of it. Your leaders haven't made tragic mistakes in the name of global stability—they've deliberately created chaos to maintain dominance. And that moral leadership you're so proud of? It's a marketing campaign designed to hide the most cynical, brutal strategy ever conceived by a modern democracy.
You're not going to like what I'm about to tell you, because it's going to shatter every comfortable delusion you've constructed about American exceptionalism. But you need to hear it, because the monsters your government created are eventually going to come for you too.
The Birth of Your Monsters
July 3, 1979. That's when your National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, signed a secret order authorizing CIA support to Afghan insurgents. Not in response to Soviet aggression— it was six months before the Soviets invaded. Your government deliberately provoked the Soviet Union into a military intervention that would become "their Vietnam."
The modest initial sum of $695,000 would eventually balloon into the largest covert operation in CIA history. But unlike what the popular narrative tells you, your government didn't arm noble freedom fighters. They armed the most psychotic religious extremists they could find.
The hero of Soviet-Afghan war, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, threw acid in the faces of unveiled women and murdered rival commanders with American-supplied weapons. Yet he received the lion's share of CIA funding precisely because of his extremism, not despite it. Your leaders understood that moderate fighters might negotiate with Moscow, but religious fanatics would fight to death.
You want to know where Al-Qaeda really came from? Al-Qaeda was originally the mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from your CIA to defeat the Russians. Your money, your weapons, your training created the entire infrastructure that produced global jihad.
Brzezinski later admitted this with chilling honesty: "What was more important in the world view of history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet empire? A few stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?"
Those "few stirred-up Muslims" killed 3,000 of your fellow citizens on September 11th. But that was considered acceptable collateral damage for the larger strategic victory.
Your government knew exactly what it was creating. They just didn't care about the consequences—for you or anyone else.
Pakistan: Your Government's Attack Dog
If Afghanistan was the laboratory for American-sponsored extremism, Pakistan became its permanent headquarters. Pakistan isn't just useful for fighting your enemies—it's essential for containing your allies.
When General Zia-ul-Haq seized power in Pakistan in 1977, your government should have imposed sanctions. Instead, they poured billions into his regime while he developed nuclear weapons and Islamized Pakistani society with public floggings and stonings. Your leaders maintained the fiction that Pakistan didn't possess nuclear weapons through annual presidential certifications they knew were lies.
After 9/11, when Pakistan's duplicity became impossible to ignore, your government gave them over $33 billion between 2002 and 2018. This was while Pakistani intelligence provided sanctuary to every major terrorist organization on earth, including the Taliban your soldiers were dying to fight.
The charade reached peak absurdity when Osama bin Laden was found living in a Pakistani military garrison town, 800 meters from their West Point. Your most wanted terrorist had lived comfortably for six years in a compound impossible to miss, in a neighborhood packed with Pakistani military officials.
Rather than confronting this obvious betrayal, your government chose to maintain the fiction of partnership. Why? Because Pakistan serves a function that your leaders value more than your soldiers' lives or your citizens' safety.
Pakistan is your government's permanent attack dog, positioned to savage anyone in their neighbourhood who threatens American supremacy.
Saudi Arabia: Bankrolling Your Enemies
Saudi Arabia completes the unholy trinity of your government's extremist alliance. The kingdom that produced 15 of the 19 September 11th hijackers receives your military protection while spreading the same Wahhabi ideology that inspired the attacks.
During the Afghan conflict, Saudi and American money flowed through identical channels to the same extremist groups. The Saudis funded madrassas across Pakistan and Afghanistan that produced the foot soldiers for your proxy war. In turn your government allowed the Saudis to spread their extremist ideology across the world, from Indonesia to Nigeria to Bosnia.
Every mosque built with Saudi money became a potential recruitment center for terrorism. Every madrassa funded by Riyadh taught the intolerant ideology that would later manifest as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and countless other groups that have killed your citizens and allies.
Your government knew this. They've always known this. But Saudi oil and strategic location made the kingdom too valuable to abandon, regardless of its role in mass murder.
You want to know why your "War on Terror" never ends? Because your government is simultaneously fighting terrorism and funding the ideological infrastructure that produces it.
The India Target: A Case Study in American Foreign Policy
India wasn't supposed to be a victim of American-sponsored extremism—it was supposed to be your democratic ally. But then something inconvenient happened: India started succeeding.
If current trends continue, India's economy will surpass yours by 2075. That prospect terrifies your strategic planners, who watched China's rise and are determined to prevent another competitor from emerging. Pakistan provides the perfect solution to the India problem.
By maintaining Pakistan as a nuclear-armed state sponsor of terrorism, your government ensures that India must spend enormous resources on defense rather than development. Every dollar India spends on security is a dollar not invested in education, infrastructure, or technology that might challenge American dominance.
Your government publicly praises India as a "strategic partner" while privately maintaining the networks that terrorize Indian citizens. Every Indian killed by Pakistani proxies serves your government's strategic interests by keeping India focused on regional security rather than global competition.
Your Global Network of Extremists
The infrastructure your government created in Afghanistan didn't stay there—it metastasized across the world. Chechen rebels bleeding Russian forces, Uyghur separatists destabilizing Chinese regions, jihadist groups fighting across the Middle East—they all trace their origins to the networks your CIA created and funded.
Meanwhile, America remains largely immune to this chaos, protected by geography and the fact that most extremist groups focus on regional targets rather than distant America. When attacks do occur on American soil, they justify expanded surveillance, military spending, and interventionist policies. It's strategic genius operating at a level most people can't comprehend—and it's being done in your name.
Case in point: The Taliban. Their return to power in Afghanistan should have been a moment of reckoning. Instead, it became another opportunity for your government to demonstrate its transactional relationship with extremism.
After twenty years of war, your government rapidly moved to establish working relations with Taliban leadership. The same group that harbored Al-Qaeda is being rehabilitated as a potential partner. American officials now speak of "engaging" the Taliban and seeking "cooperation" on counterterrorism.
The humanitarian cost of Taliban rule—systematic oppression of women, ethnic cleansing, public executions—matters less to your government than geopolitical utility. The Taliban serves as a counterweight to Iran, a buffer against China, and a governing force in territory America doesn't want to occupy.
The Machine That Never Stops
Your government's strategy is designed to be self-perpetuating. Each cycle of extremist violence creates justification for the next round of support to extremist allies.
Every terrorist attack becomes evidence that your extremist allies are indispensable for managing extremist threats. The dogs of war must be fed because they're the only force capable of controlling other dogs.
Your defense contractors profit from endless conflicts. Your intelligence agencies expand their budgets fighting threats they helped create. Your military leaders advance their careers managing crises their policies perpetuate. Your politicians win elections promising to defeat enemies their predecessors empowered.
The chaos isn't a bug in the system—it is the system.
And what has this strategy cost? Millions have died in conflicts fueled by American-sponsored extremism. Afghanistan lost over 170,000 people during your occupation. Countries like India suffered thousands of casualties from proxies operating under American protection.
But these costs don't appear in your strategic calculations because they're paid by other people's children. Your government externalizes the human cost of its policies to foreign populations while Americans enjoy the benefits of global dominance.
But the chickens are coming home to roost.
The Price You'll Pay
Dear America,
Your government has created monsters, and those monsters are growing stronger. They've tasted blood, learned to operate independently, and developed their own ambitions. The question isn't whether they'll eventually turn on you—it's how much damage they'll cause when they do.
You can continue believing the comfortable lies your media tell you about American exceptionalism and moral leadership. You can keep pretending that your government's extremist alliances are necessary evils in a complex world.
Or you can wake up to the truth: your government has built a machine designed to create chaos, and that machine is now beyond their control. The dogs of war are well-fed and growing restless. They've served their masters faithfully for decades, but their loyalty has limits.
The blood of millions is on your hands, whether you acknowledge it or not. The terrorism that kills your citizens is funded by your tax dollars and enabled by your strategic choices. The extremism that threatens your children is the direct product of your government's policies.
You are not the good guys. You never were. And the sooner you accept that truth, the sooner you might be able to do something about it.
But you won't, will you? Because accepting the truth would require admitting that everything you believe about your country is a lie. And that's a price most Americans will never be willing to pay—not until the monsters come for them too.
The dogs are coming home, America. And they're hungry.
