FAILING IN AFGHANISTAN
"Despite hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of troops, the US is unable to conclude its longest war... hard news from the ground tell a story of US fatigue, backtracking and tactical withdrawals or redeployments which do not bode well for defeating the Taliban or forcing them to the negotiations' table... news from the war front show the Taliban unrelenting, mounting counterattacks and escalating the war especially in areas where the US has "surged" its troops. And while the majority of the 400 Afghan districts are "calmer", they remain mostly out of Kabul's control... The mere fact that the world's mightiest superpower cannot win over the poorly armed Taliban after a long decade of fighting, means it has already failed..."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113718714585594.html#
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
KARZAI REJECTS U.S. APOLOGY FOR KILLING 9 BOYS
"... Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus... that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters... Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/karzai-rejects-us-apology-afghanistan-boys-killed_n_831972.html
"... Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus... that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters... Regrets and condemnations of the incident cannot heal the wounds of the people..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/karzai-rejects-us-apology-afghanistan-boys-killed_n_831972.html
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
NATO APOLOGIZES FOR KILLING 9 CHILDREN
" NATO has apologized for killing nine civilians in Kunar province... nine boys, ages 12 and under, were killed as they were gathering firewood... four of the nine boys killed were age 7, three were age 8, one was nine years old and one was 12. Also, one child was wounded..."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/02/world/asia/AP-AS-Afghanistan.html?hp
" NATO has apologized for killing nine civilians in Kunar province... nine boys, ages 12 and under, were killed as they were gathering firewood... four of the nine boys killed were age 7, three were age 8, one was nine years old and one was 12. Also, one child was wounded..."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/02/world/asia/AP-AS-Afghanistan.html?hp
WAR MONEY NEEDED BY STATES
"The U.S. is spending about $2 billion a week in Afghanistan alone. That’s about $104 billion a year — and that is not including Iraq. Compare that with the state budget shortfalls. According to a recent report by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “some 45 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls totaling $125 billion for fiscal year 2012.” The math is simple: The money should be poured back into the states, rather than into a state of war..."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_battle_of_the_budgets_new_fronts_in_the_afghan_and_iraq_wars_20110301/
"The U.S. is spending about $2 billion a week in Afghanistan alone. That’s about $104 billion a year — and that is not including Iraq. Compare that with the state budget shortfalls. According to a recent report by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “some 45 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls totaling $125 billion for fiscal year 2012.” The math is simple: The money should be poured back into the states, rather than into a state of war..."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_battle_of_the_budgets_new_fronts_in_the_afghan_and_iraq_wars_20110301/
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