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Sunday, March 11, 2012

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NYT:
PANJWAI, Afghanistan -- Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early Sunday... Coming after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the apparently unprovoked killings added to a feeling of siege here among Western personnel. And officials described a growing sense of concern over a cascading series of missteps and offenses that has cast doubt on the ability of NATO personnel to carry out their mission...
There will be more and more of this until we get out, it will not stop until we get out, the fundamental irrationality of our presence there will engender more stress, more confusion, more resentment, more misery, more accidents, more murder, more madness until we get out, there is no achievable end game apart from getting out, there are no American strategic interests that will accrue to getting out later rather than getting out now, the only thing that will "win hearts and minds" we are now losing every day is that we get out, there is nothing to be gained or regained by doing anything but getting out, this crazy death-dealing drift ends only if and when we get out, get out get out get out get out!

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