Afghanistan, another untold story
Common Dreams
by Michael Parenti
12/02/08
Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the role played by the United States. Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, US leaders began an all-out aerial assault upon Afghanistan, the country purportedly harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist organization. More than twenty years earlier, in 1980, the United States intervened to stop a Soviet ‘invasion’ of that country. Even some leading progressive writers, who normally take a more critical view of US policy abroad, treated the US intervention against the Soviet-supported government as ‘a good thing.’ The actual story is not such a good thing...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/02
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Afghanistan: Another Untold Story
By Michael Parenti
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the earth's dwindling fossil fuel supply, and planting US bases and US military power into still another region of the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21387.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fossil+fuel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti
by Michael Parenti
12/02/08
Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the role played by the United States. Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, US leaders began an all-out aerial assault upon Afghanistan, the country purportedly harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist organization. More than twenty years earlier, in 1980, the United States intervened to stop a Soviet ‘invasion’ of that country. Even some leading progressive writers, who normally take a more critical view of US policy abroad, treated the US intervention against the Soviet-supported government as ‘a good thing.’ The actual story is not such a good thing...
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/02
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Afghanistan: Another Untold Story
By Michael Parenti
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the earth's dwindling fossil fuel supply, and planting US bases and US military power into still another region of the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21387.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fossil+fuel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Parenti
rudkla - 3. Dez, 10:03
