Afghanistan, the other war
“The western media talks about democracy and the liberation of Afghanistan, but the U.S. and its allies are engaged in the warlordization, criminalization and drug-lordization of our wounded land,” Afghani woman parliamentarian Malalai Joya told an audience at the University of California in Los Angeles last month.
As 2008 approaches, Republicans fear Iraq war backlash
By next fall President Bush “may find himself standing alone” on his Iraq war policy. That was the warning from Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, commenting on Bush’s White House meeting with 11 Republican House members, May 10, in which they bluntly warned him that time is running out on the U.S. military role in Iraq.
