Comments on: Ten Reasons a Troop Surge in Afghanistan is a Mistake

By: Craig Watson

Craig Watson — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:03:10 +0000

All the points are valid. I could add many more, but the one that comes primarily to mind is that staying in Afghanistan reinforces the frightening American mindset of violence, militarism, and corporate control that Martin Luther King warned us so many years ago that we needed to urgently change. Was Reich right in the Greening of America? Do we need to change consciousness before we change structure and action?
Imagine.

Obama really is a pragmatist more than a progressive. No big surprise there, but it has been very disappointing.

By: peacepundit

peacepundit — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:16:59 +0000

Building on Dolores' comment, here are links to talks by and interviews of Noam Chomsky on the Afghan war:

By: Dolores Perez

Dolores Perez — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:38:56 +0000

It is really WEIRD that no mention of words “oil” “energy resources” are ever mentioned in the discussion re: whether/pro/con more troops to Afhanistan. Many believe it is to secure the ground (thus, troops needed) thru Afghanistan for the “energy (gas and oil) pipeline” which is needed to get these resources out of the north: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijian thru Afghanistan (called the “energy corridor”) to Pakistan/India and to the ocean to transport out of there….

Antonia Juhasz, an oil expert/researcher, speaks about the REAL REASON we are there: This is a portion of the Noam Chomsky 10/04/09 SFUU event (10 minutes), to get folks to try to stop the surge…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHCPE6jmk0

Antonia sets out the whole scenario….but the general American public never hears the analyisis for US control of these world resources, or from experts like this…