The day a leading Australian conservative, Tom Switzer, urged a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bravo.
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More wars and Glenn Beck do not equal respect or honour
Because Fox News, Glenn Beck, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and God are what America needs to “restore honour“:
Reporters should not be embedding
A rather curious position for a journalist to argue, this time by Lindsay Murdoch in Fairfax: Unless journalists are with the soldiers there will be little independent reporting of the war. Embedding [Australian] journalists at Tarin Kot would improve the level of respect and trust between Defence and the media, which has deteriorated over years.…
ABC talks about Afghanistan in a bubble
As news emerges of a key aide of Hamad Karzai being on the CIA payroll – along with the country’s spy service – and Australia suffering another combat loss, ABC radio features a “debate” on the war with three men who share roughly similar views. No anti-war voices and no figures clearly calling for withdrawal…
Wikileaks shows the CIA understands how the US is seen
The latest Wikileaks revelations are intriguing and indicate a fear within the CIA that America may be seen as an incubator of terrorism (and, perish the thought, even a cause of violence): The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks.…
Pull out of Afghanistan now, says new Australian MP
An Australian politician who actually thinks before he speaks on Afghanistan (unlike the parrots in the major parties): Andrew Wilkie has said the justification given by both parties for keeping Australian troops in Afghanistan is a “great lie”. Mr Wilkie has argued that both parties lied during the election campaign about the relevance of the…
Of course Afghans know what “liberation” feels like
We rarely hear the views of people under Western occupation, so it’s interesting to read that a majority of Afghans in a new survey believe that the recent Wikileaks documents accurately reflect the reality in their country.
What on earth will the contractors do?
How many foreign, private mercenary companies will be affected if Afghanistan actually kicks out the unaccountable men who roam the country?
Murdoch loves spreading bile; nice little earner
Frank Rich in the New York Times: How do you win Muslim hearts and minds in Kandahar when you are calling Muslims every filthy name in the book in New York? … In the five months after The Times’s initial account there were no newspaper articles on the project at all. It was only in…