This New York Times headline is a master of understatement: Civilian Deaths Imperil Support for Afghan War Well, yes, support for the war in Afghanistan will remain desperately low as long as the US keeps on murdering innocent civilians from the air.
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Spreading the word of a crazy Jesus
The West wonders why many Muslims hate the Americans? Military officials at Bagram are caught on tape urging US soldiers to evangelize in the Muslim country. UPDATE: The US military has responded to the al-Jazeera story…by shooting the messenger.
We will always be known as occupiers
The war in Afghanistan is a disaster. And a war crime. Just like Vietnam and Iraq. Some soldiers seem to know that:
Haven’t we been here before?
Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull looks at the Obama administration’s foreign policy and finds it remarkably similar to George W. Bush: Obama was elected promising change. But in all the US’s recent actions — in everything from a new series of embarrassing gaffesnew Guantanamo — the changes are noticeable to anyone but the…
They will fight us as long as we stay
New American special representative for Pakistan/Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, talks to the Wall Street Journal: Some people say to me, particularly after a few drinks, ‘Why don’t we go in there with our troops and just clean it up?’” he says. “First of all we can’t without their permission, and that would not be a good…
What our job should always be
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on the true role of journalists: That media is broken right now. And I think the embedding process has brought the media to an all time low. You have reporters embedded in the front lines of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. What about being embedded in Iraqi hospitals and Afghan…
The empire goes on
Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now! talking about the US expansion of the Afghan occupation, the uses of NATO, and what Obama should do in Israel-Palestine:
Why are we supporting this outrage?
Afghanistan, the land of freedom and equality: Afghanistan’s President, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law which “legalises” rape, women’s groups and the United Nations warn. Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through parliament in a bid to appease Islamic fundamentalists ahead of elections in August. In a massive blow for women’s rights, the…