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Monday, May 31, 2010

Afghanistan, By the Way

I strongly disapproved of our Afghanistan adventure before our illegal, immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq, and I still disapprove of it.

Responding to the domestic tragedy and injustice of massive civilian casualties through the inflicting of the tragedy and injustice of civilian casualties in foreign places is stupid and evil, whatever anybody in a suave suit or a full-froth of dot-eyed nationalism says to the contrary.

For me, Afghanistan was never "the good war" that enabled one to hold the proper anti-war position concerning Iraq while still genuflecting to the bloody minded brutal anti-democratizing he-man militarism that ruinously suffuses American society.

Terrorism is a matter of global policing and limited covert operations (all of which have their problems too, obviously), and all within the larger context of a need for multilateral diplomacy, international institutions, and social support of the obscenely overexploited regions of the world by we culpable beneficiaries of corporate-militarism extractive-petrochemical-industrialism and neoliberal developmentalism.

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