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Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan war’
Limits of empire. Afghanistan War and more
Marc Cooper
We can’t fight a couple of wars, not raise taxes AND deploy any meaningful domestic programs that will get 15% of the population back to steady work and 25% of our kids off of food stamps. We can’t keep reality show gate-crashers from getting into slashing proximity of the President of the United [...]
O = W
Paleocon, co-originator of Fourth Generation War theory, and Iraq War opponent William Lind in Global Guerillas
“O=W” is a bumper sticker beginning to show up on liberals’ cars. After the President’s speech Tuesday night at West Point, I suspect it will spread rapidly.
It should not come as a surprise. America is now a one-party state. [...]
Only 100 al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan. Yet 30,000 troops will be sent
ABC News
As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al-Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al-Qaeda fighters in the entire country.
Boing Boing posts “War Pigs” [...]
Why would you want to do that?
With speech, president makes the conflict truly his own.
Why are we there? What are we fighting for? We’re opening backing an utterly corrupt government while fighting guerrillas in their own territory.
Afghanistan war. Emergency anti-escalation rally
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009 • 11am-4pm • Washington DC
Almost 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets have PTSD or depression
From Rand Corp. research
About 18.5 percent of US soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq currently have PTSD or depression. 19.5 percent report traumatic brain injuries.
An estimated 31 percent of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have a mental health condition or reported experiencing a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
About 300,000 currently suffer from PTSD or [...]
Afghanistan. Vietnam all over again
Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan
What is the goal of this war? Apparently it is to somehow chase down and then kill terrorists fighting on their own ground when we often don’t even know who they are. Good luck with that.
The most idiotic thing being said about America’s involvement in Afghanistan is that the [...]
Afghan war debate and the business of American empire
The fighting terrorism argument makes no sense. Invading a country will always build a determined opposition, who could strike here as well as there. Plus, given the current dismal state of the economy, we can’t afford to fight wars that don’t need to be fought.
It’s my suggestion that, in the big picture, our hand is [...]
Our bedraggled antiwar movement
It wasn’t that long ago that antiwar street corner protests used as buildups to mass marches and to judge sentiment would draw well over a thousand people. But judging from the ANSWER LA website, a recent round of such protests in LA, SF, and Chicago just drew a couple hundred people each.
Yeah, the Iraq [...]
The Sun UK to Gordon Brown. Don’t you know there’s a bloody war on?
The Sun, while hardly antiwar, hits PM Brown upside the head, saying the Afghanistan war is incompetently run.
The 207 faces of our Afghanistan dead are stark reminders of the bloody war we are fighting.
Each represents a sacrifice made for democracy and freedom in the name of Britain. Yet, to its shame, our Government doesn’t seem [...]
What happened to the wars?
The wars have mostly vanished from the headlines. Lots of people are still getting killed and maimed, displaced too. Yet because the violence has apparently lessened because of the surge, the wars are no longer front page news.
The presidential election campaigns are also surely a reason, as campaign news is becoming all-consuming, destroying any other [...]
