much like the occupation itself, really.
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/08/how-the-taliban-chased-the-west-out-of-afghanistan/
trillions of $$ and where did all of it go, other than to further grease and line the usual profiteers' pockets. looting isn't liberating, and 'mericans themselves are too well "liberated" and "stabilitated" to even be able to get more than a glimpse of this.
I generally avoid politics/news discussions these days, but can't help but think lately how history repeats itself, with whatever little variations. How the US is handling the pull out from Afghanistan would very much seem a strategic "failure" from here.
https://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-the-mujahideen/
'sigil from a nameless arborum'
this version closer to the original I started with, using a different oil brush
'portrait of a spacetree with flower'
started as a fractal/photo composite, turned into an oil pastel in Painter 20.
can't say i'm a huge fan of Matt Stoller, but found this to be pretty insightful as to root causes and solutions to some of the growing social unrest in USA. media is mostly bought and owned by relative handful of same people, with elected officials being even worse, so won't see much light of day.
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-do-to-reset
every sea leaps into the sky
here and there touching,
but what's the rush
oh, the roilings —
a passion that drives
and all of life succumbs
