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General David Petraeus,former Commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, with Paula Broadwell.-AP

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The Broadwell-Petraeus affair was simply an upper-class mirror image of the common GIs consumption of conveyor belt rest and recreation during America
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Occupied Afghanistan. A U.S. Marine patrol in Marjah in Helmand province on February 19.-AP

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Abstract: Future U.S. wars in the Third World will involve massive use of drones to police the territory, employment of local satrap1 forces (such as
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Kunduz massacre

THE magic cut-off is revealed to be about 30 to 40. Such revealed facts tell far more than mere words. Some years ago, Human Rights Watchs Marc Garlas
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 17.-ALEX BRANDON/AP

Obamas unspoken trade-off

BURIED in the public relations blather of United States Marine legions liberating Helmand and Afghan (sham) elections as democracy restored1 is an uns
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Afghan Tragedy

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Terror, U.S. style

Nothing has changed for us in this new Afghanistan, said 16-year-old Seema, in early 2007, whose father was killed by a U.S. liberating bomb in Octobe
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Deadly change

THE first Afghan civilian killed by United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (U.S./NATO) action in the New Year was a boy named Marjan, killed
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Matrix of Death

A new dossier on the (im)precision of U.S. bombing and the (under)valuation of Afghan lives.
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Understanding Barack Obama

He promises nothing other than what already is in Afghanistan: prolonged low-intensity conflict with endless death and destruction.
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At the site of a suicide car bomb explosion in Jalalabad in Afghanistans eastern province of Nangarhar, on May 31.-RAFIQ SHIRZAD/REUTERS

An empty buffer

For the U.S., Afghanistan is a socio-economically irrelevant space to be kept empty through least-cost military means.
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An Italian soldier of NATO's International Security Assistance Force near the site of a bomb explosion close to Herat airport, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2006. The remote-controlled bomb killed four civilians and wounded six people, including a border police commander.-FRAIDOON POOYAA/AP

Relative lethality

The 21st century wars of the U.S. kill large numbers of innocent civilians relative to combatants.
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U.S. soldiers guard the site of a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. military convoy in Kabul on September 8.-PAUL GARWOOD/AP

Suicide car bombs vs `precision' bombs

The United States' bombs that use the latest technology cause far more civilian deaths than the Taliban's suicide car bombs.
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