Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal remarked at the Council on Foreign Relations that then-President George W. Bush and the United States began the war in Afghanistan with a “frighteningly simplistic” view of the country, he could have added “superstitious.” Still, the Bush Administration’s preemptive wars and military campaigns against the people of Afghanistan, not to mention Iraq, conjures up the European Frankish King Clovis. When the Western Roman Empire was dying in the 6th century, Clovis was like other Barbarian rulers who were vying for political power and economic wealth. Food shortages and tribal warfare had forced many to…
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