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By Norman Solomon

Top Democrats and many prominent supporters -- with vocal agreement, tactical quibbles or total silence -- are assisting the escalation of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The predictable results will include much more killing and destruction. Back home, on the political front, the escalation will drive deep wedges into the Democratic Party.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22358.htm



Bring an End to 'Triple Evils' by Abandoning War

By Kevin Martin and Leslie Cagan

Until fundamental changes are made in U.S. foreign policy -- an end to blank-check support for Israel, an end to U.S. occupation and military bases in Arab lands, an end to threats to Iran, an end to the chimera of the "global war on terror" (or whatever they call it now), an end to hypocrisy on nuclear proliferation, and concrete steps to address legitimate grievances in the Arab and Muslim world -- whatever we do in Afghanistan or Pakistan, short of a massive occupation that would be immoral and we can't afford, is doomed to failure.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22362.htm



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