Perhaps it is owing to their desire to prop up President Biden, perhaps they have members being held hostage, and perhaps any enemy of America is their friend, but the corpostate press are propping up the Taliban as reasonable, changed, and professional.
Below is a screenshot of one example:
A “businesslike” group of anti-American terrorists who treat women like property, kill Christians and gays, and conduct a reign of terror? The old mob line, before they murder an old friend, “it’s not personal, it’s just business” seems to be the idea here.
But transport the Taliban to the US and make them not Muslim but Christians or agnostics even and the corpostate press would rightly condemn them every day, all day, and vociferously, unelss of course they voted for Democrats and/or were high paying customers. The camera only points in the direction that benefits the ruling class and the tone of coverage is all about coralling people, definitely not informing them.
The Taliban may have “helped” in some show fashion to let some Americans leave, but we didn’t need them in any way. The proper operational plan would be to have increased our military strength prior to leaving, remove all our people and allies, and depart one area at a time. Keeping Bagram as a permanent base could have also been on the table to support the Afghan government.
The truth is, the US, from Trump until now, was all too willing to rehabilitate the Taliban just to get out, consequences be damned to everyone left behind. But when Biden, darling of the ruling class (because he’s such a shill to them), walked that same line, suddenly the “new” Taliban was “businesslike.” It isn’t an issue of their bias, it is an issue of their dishonesty: they don’t for a minute believe the things they are saying.
