Sunday, April 22, 2012

Brutal occupiers quite nice once you get to know them

Click here to access article by Carlo Sands from Green Left (Australia).

There is a streak of sarcastic irony running through this article which throws the spotlight of hard truth on the Empire's occupation of Afghanistan.
As the occupation staggers from one disaster to another, pressure is growing in the countries taking part in the occupation to pull their soldiers out. But the media commentators are quick to pose the most important question: Is the job done?

...In other words, will the Afghan security forces — who keep refusing to kill other Afghans and instead turn their guns on the occupiers — prove willing and able, once the occupiers are gone, to kill enough other Afghans to allow the corrupt warlords the West put in power to stay in power?