I love you, Marianne Williamson. But right now your genuine identification with and compassion for the women of Afghanistan is making you into quite the useful idiot.

You don’t understand that the very imperialist and interventionist policies you’re supporting today are what put the Afghan women in the crosshairs in the first place.

You don’t understand that this Taliban you’re willing to bend your antiwar principles for today was created by the american capitalist machine that you want to put back in action against them.

(Bonus coincidence: The ugly face of Bill Kristol appears in this video as the flag-waving imperialist, the very same Kristol that Marianne’s twitter thread on the subject springboards off of approvingly.)

Marianne, when you literally changed your vote to be pro-M4A right in the middle of a debate, I fondly found the witlessness of it charming.

Even now, I sympathize deeply with your momma-bear instincts regarding the innocent and the helpless.

But you don’t fix imperialist hegemony with more imperialist hegemony, even if and when you dress it up in the language of love.

The motherfuckers had two decades to save your sisters–our sisters. They spent 300 million dollars a day for twenty years enriching themselves and amplifying evil with your very cry on their lips.

By your standards and mine, the whole thing was a dismal failure.

What is your proposal for trying again? I’m asking honestly. More of the same? For how long? At what cost?

Pull back. Stop looking across the world. Look to the women around you, living in their cars and under bridges, unable to feed their own children because the Machine has cast them aside. Feed them. House them.

And then come back and we’ll have a nice long talk about how we the Americans, out of our own abundance, can best go about fixing the problems of women in Peru or Afghanistan or Tanzania.

Until then, do us both a favor and shut the fuck up. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and this time it isn’t charming at all.