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...truth of what is happening in Afghanistan was laid out during recent gatherings held by the advocacy group Iraq Veterans Against the War, during which vets testified to the brutality that is an everyday part of the occupation. Hamid Karzai's government is just like the puppet regimes the U.S. set up in South Vietnam. And as in Vietnam, civilians are being massacred by U.S. troops. The media will deny it until, like My Lai, it becomes too big to be denied. While I heartily disagree with its policies, even the Taliban would be better for Afghanistan than...
...speech, the general emphasized the importance of reevaluating strategy and communicating these new goals to leaders. He said that before the successful 2007 troop surge in Iraq, he and his advisors “sat down and tried to get the big ideas right...
...will be very difficult and you won’t see the dramatic downturn that we have seen in Iraq,” he said...
Harvard Business School student Leo V. Buehler, who served three tours in Iraq, said he was humbled and impressed by the event...
...mother of seven kids, four of whom live in the prison with her. (The others live with her mother.) "They are best with me," she adds, as her three-year-old snuggles into her lap, "regardless of where that is." (See pictures from a women's prison in Iraq...