Largest Portion of Killings Came in Air Strikes
by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, February 24, 2010
When the record 2009 civilian death toll began to emerge, NATO was quick to brag that they had actually killed fewer civilians than the Taliban. This appears to be the case still, though UN reports suggested the difference wasn’t nearly as dramatic as NATO initially claimed. There is one thing the Taliban can’t compete with NATO on, however, and that’s the killing of children.
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Sinking deeper in Afghanistan
September 9, 2009The U.S. is making an ever-greater commitment to a war that is less and less popular, either here or in Afghanistan.
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Socialist Worker, September 9, 2009
Tank crews in Afghanistan wait for the order to move out (Edward Stewart)
FACING THE possibility of military defeat, the generals call for a massive troop escalation to turn the tide on the battlefield–and a Democratic president heeds their demands, presiding over a dramatic increase in U.S. money and manpower devoted to the conflict.
That’s a summary of how the U.S. sank itself deeper into the Vietnam War in the 1960s–and now, how the Obama administration is committing itself to the U.S. war on Afghanistan.
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