Monday, December 05, 2011
Myth and Mayhem
Ten years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, protests in Kabul against the American occupation join in solidarity with the Occupy protests around the world. As a criminal enterprise, the Pentagon’s Afghan adventure ranks right up there, and while the atrocities might not yet compare with the American military misadventures in Vietnam, the hypocrisy of fundamentalist allies become enemies and allies once again is tough to top. Independent Media Center — the folks who treated us to the truth in Seattle in 1999 — reports on the myth and mayhem of liberating Afghanistan.
