What to make of this? Nato forces dropping supplies for the Taliban. It was all 'human error' according to Nato's General Carlos Branco, but Afghan politicians think it was done purposefully.
The veils separating the 'real' explanations from conspiracy get thinner and thinner. What if NATO were supplying their notional enemies? The war could then be sustained indefinitely. The aim is not to win. Both sides have a vested interest in keeping the conflict going.
In the next story down, we read that a suicide bomber has blown up a mosque a hundred miles away in the same country. But the one minute update on the web version of the paper erases and replaces a story of Nato forces 'accidentally' blowing up the same mosque. The war in Afghanistan has not taken place. We are the ghostly spectators of a fake spectacle.
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