ROUNDTABLE #2: “Afghanistan: America’s Second Vietnam (Forty Years in the Making)”

TrineDay’s THE VALEDICTION Roundtable Series:“Exposing the Failure of Empire and Reclaiming the Narrative Creation Process.”… inspired by the book, THE VALEDICTION: THREE NIGHTS OF DESMOND by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould (at TrineDay dot com) about America’s exploitation of Afghanistan, which began in the 1970s. (Also discussed: how the use of force makes rulers “mystical imperialists,” and actually makes them insane, how we must put an end to empire, and how Washington and Hollywood cast spells through the narrative creation process/propaganda to hoodwink and hurt people and nations.) RA “Kris” Millegan, TrineDay publisher (around 150 books in the past twenty years). Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, who were the first American journalists to enter Afghanistan in 1981 after the Soviet invasion in December 1979. Dr. Jawied Nawabi, assistant professor of economics, sociology and international studies at the City University of New York, Bronx Community College; co-editor of Real World Globalization; and co-author of The Making & Un-Making of the Modern Afghan State (an article being published in spring 2022). Bruce de Torres, author of GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: THE LIES THAT ARE KILLING US AND THE TRUTH THAT SETS US FREE (at TrineDay dot com).