Peace and Justice Post

By James Cogan,  WSWS,  4 July 2009

The Obama administration has ordered the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2 MEB) into a potentially bloody offensive in the southern province of Helmand. The objective is the suppression of the ethnic Pashtun population, which is overwhelmingly hostile to the seven-and-a-half year US and NATO occupation of the country and rejects the legitimacy of the Afghan puppet government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

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Tags: 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Afghan puppet government, Afghanistan, Helmand, Obama administration, Pashtun, South Waziristan

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