#Afghanistan

Apr 14, 2017
4 min

‘It felt like the heavens were falling’: Afghans reel from Moab impact

Locals describe the moment the ‘mother of all bombs’ was dropped, as critics question the wisdom of deploying the weapon By Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul / The Guardian / Friday 14 April 2017 10.51 EDT After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground. “The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” Shahzadah said. “I thought my house was being bombed.

The bombing of Afghanistan shows the US is led by a one-man wild card

Jay Murdock

Apr 14, 2017
2 min

The bombing of Afghanistan shows the US is led by a one-man wild card

First Syria, now Afghanistan – obscene and pointless bombings. But Donald Trump has tasted the sweet cup of war and no one seems able to control him By Simon Jenkins /The Guardian / April 14, 2017 Bombs are the fool’s gold of war. Imprecise, expensive and cruel, their strategic utility diminishes the farther they fall from a politician’s desk. The US, with Britain in tepid accord, has been bombing unstable Muslim states for 16 years and has delivered nothing but death and ana

Reassessing The Cost Of The Post-9/11 Era, Post Bin Laden

Jay Murdock

May 11, 2011
5 min

Reassessing The Cost Of The Post-9/11 Era, Post Bin Laden

Dan Froomkin – froomkin@huffingtonpost.com Become a fan of this reporter WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death doesn’t end the post-9/11 era, but it does provide an occasion to look back at everything that’s happened since the attacks nearly 10 years ago and reassess the costs. It’s been a long, grueling and enormously expensive time for this country, a time of endless war and massive fortification, of borrowed money and of missed opportunities. There’s the human toll. More t

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

Jay Murdock

Mar 23, 2011
4 min

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing Libya’s dictator with the weapons he’s been using against the people, all the international community — France, Britain and the United States — has to offer the people of Libya is more bombs, this time dropped from the sky rather than delivered in a box to Muammar Gaddafi’s palace. If the bitter lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan has taught us a

Petraeus’ Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony

Jay Murdock

Mar 17, 2011
4 min

Petraeus’ Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony

Rep. Mike Honda: Represents the 15th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House Posted: March 16, 2011 04:33 PM Today, we will spend roughly $325 million fighting in Afghanistan. Twenty million dollars was spent just during Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony to Congress this morning. This month, we are on track to spend more than $10 billion in Afghanistan. This year, we expect to spend $120 billion fighting the war there. And for what? In the last year, we had the h

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Petraeus’ Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony

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Petraeus’ Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony

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