By Kevin Barrett, for the forthcoming edition of Crescent International
Australian biochemist Gideon Polya is one of the world’s leading experts on avoidable mortality, holocausts, and genocides. In Post-9/11 US-Imposed Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (2020) Polya writes of “the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (a.k.a. the US War on Terror) which has been associated, so far, with 32 million Muslim deaths—from violence, five million, or from imposed deprivation, 27 million—in 20 impoverished countries invaded by the US alliance since the US government’s 9/11 false flag atrocity.”
Dr. Polya maintains a website Afghan Holocaust Afghan Genocide where he estimates that the US is responsible for 6.8 million Afghan deaths, consisting of 1.6 million deaths by violence and 5.2 million by deprivation, during its 20-year occupation. He cites estimates that the Afghan war cost the US government over $2 trillion, about one-third of the total cost of the so-called War on Terror, and points out that even a mere fraction of such colossal sums could have greatly reduced avoidable mortality in the US and elsewhere. So by applying scarce resources to the deliberate murder of millions abroad, US leaders were indirectly murdering considerable numbers of their own people as well.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan was a barely-disguised war of aggression, the US obviously owes gargantuan reparations. (Even former puppet president Hamid Karzai has admitted that there was never any significant al-Qaeda presence in Afghanistan and that the official story of 9/11 is highly dubious.) As the defeated war criminal aggressor, the US ought to be forced to spend many multiples of what it wasted destroying Afghanistan to rebuild that devastated country. But even as the Afghan people starve due to US destruction of global food supplies stemming from the American war on Russia through Ukraine, the Americans are not only refusing aid to Afghanistan, they are actually stealing Afghanistan’s own money.