Sunday, October 24, 2010

Afghan feminist: Why foreign troops should leave

by Malalai Joya from Green Left
The documents released by Wikileaks prove what we have been saying about war in Afghanistan. There are more massacres by NATO forces than they wanted us to believe. Now the whole world should know this war is a disaster.

These are the reasons that, throughout Afghanistan, more and more people are taking to the streets to protest the US occupation.

Obama’s surge of the war also puts more from the US and other occupying nations at risk. Why are Obama and [Canadian Prime Minister Stephen] Harper wasting so much money on this war when they cannot give jobs or even houses to their own poor people? 
The Afghans are clear about the election games that the Empire likes to play on their people; we in the US must also refuse to collaborate with ruling class deceptions by not voting, except possibly for local candidates and measures to protect our communities.