re: our empire killing children in Afghanistan

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http://counterpunch.com/

the following is part of an article titled: Hillary Clinton: "We're Losing the War" (her thoughts on Aljazeera)


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Two lethal helicopter assaults, two different outcomes for those divulging them. Petraeus gets a pat on the back for his swift effort at damage control; Manning gets charges that carry the death penalty.

One of my neighbors here in Petrolia is Dr Dick Scheinman, who emailed his address list Thursday thus:

“I recently read a horrifying article in the NY Times about Afghanistan and could not help writing my representatives. Maybe you can too. Tax time is coming up and tax resistance is an option.

‘May I call your attention to an article from March 2 in the NY Times entitled ‘Nine Afghan boys collecting firewood killed by NATO Helicopters’.

‘I live with my grandson, 12, and as part of our making a living we collect and sell firewood. Nathan gets paid 25 dollars for loading and unloading a cord of wood from our truck. When I read this story I could not get out of my mind the pure chance that made Nathan a healthy American boy who could collect firewood and earn money, rather than a poor Afghan boy whose life was destroyed by NATO (American?) men (women?) in a helicopter thousands of miles from their homes. With rue my heart is laden.

‘David Petreus has “apologized.” Perhaps he has children and grandchildren. Perhaps he should send his children over to Afghanistan to collect firewood for these boys’ sisters for the rest of their lives to atone for this outrageous cold blooded murder.(‘they shot the boys one after the other”.) Maybe the men in the helicopter should do the same. Perhaps Barack Obama’s two daughters could help.

Perhaps they should put on rags and kiss their feet and beg forgiveness.

But the least, the very least that YOU can do is to never, ever vote to spend any more money to continue this war.’”

As I said, it’s not so hard to figure out why America is losing the propaganda war.

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[RandomThoughts]

1. I figured that out a long time ago.

I am due beer and travel money and many experiences, and the impetus of the action that tried to take that from me was caused by wrong ideology from sectors covered by US policy, and US systems of information dispersal, and even many consolidations.

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2. Yeah. Let's just leave and let the Taliban buttfuck the little dancing boys.

But at least we don't have to fund the buttfucking of little dancing boys anymore.

Afghanistan is warped and has been warped for a long time.

We can't fix Afghanistan.

Drop it. Leave it.

[DCKit]

3. Is THAT why we're there? Who knew?

It's not as if we don't have a bit of that going on here, too. Perhaps we should clean our own house first, lest we be thought of as hypocrites.

Either way, we're doing far more harm than good in Afghanistan.

[alphafemale]

4. Apparently we're funding some Taliban Dancing Boy parties.

God Bless America.

[msongs]

5. the gay man has to stand naked while the baby killers get uniforms full of medals nt

[alphafemale]

6. wait...what?

that is possibly the funniest thing I read all week.


"the gay man has to stand naked while the baby killers get uniforms full of medals"

I've submitted this as an intertube quote of the week.

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7. don't know why you are laughing - its not funny, its the truth

nt