Afghan War Costs Now Outpace Iraq's

As long as we continue to invade, bomb & occupy Muslim countries, there are going to be people (including within our country) who want to return the violence to us. That'll happen no matter how repeatedly we rewrite our rules of justice & acquiesce to more core liberties being taken away [last week's assault by Obama on citizens' miranda rights' protections].



But not only do we show no signs of slowing down in the behavior that causes us to be Terrorist targets, each new attack causes us to intensify that behavior through the use of the most circular logic imaginable. Obama said this week that we must continue to fight in Afghanistan because of the recent Terrorist attacks aimed at the U.S.; of course, a primary reason there are Terrorist attacks aimed at the U.S. is because we continue to kill Muslim civilians around the world, including in Afghanistan. It's a neverending, self-perpetuating cycle: we attack people in the Muslim world, causing Terrorist attacks aimed at the U.S., & then cite those episodes as a reason to further attack people in the Muslim world, etc.



http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/13/citizens/index.html
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