A US soldier on patrol in southern Afghanistan with Afghan security forces was shot to death Sunday when one of the Afghans opened fire. It was at least the sixth such attack in the past two weeks. Over this period, twelve US soldiers have been killed by Afghan soldiers or policemen who were supposedly their allies.
The latest incident brings the total of such attacks since the beginning of 2012 on US or NATO forces, dubbed “green on blue” incidents by US military spokesmen, to 32, resulting in 40 deaths. The number of soldiers wounded in such insider attacks is likely far greater, but concealed by a US-NATO policy of refusing to discuss non-fatal injuries.
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These incidents have a significance far beyond the actual death toll, since they give a glimpse of the real relationship between an oppressed population and the US-NATO occupation, now approaching the end of its eleventh year.
The vast majority of the Afghan population opposes the US-NATO forces and the Karzai stooge regime. Hence the endless supply of recruits for the “Taliban,” the name the US military and media apply to any and all insurgents, most of them simply poor farmers who fight in and around the rural villages where their families live.
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Bush and Obama both claimed to be freeing the people of Afghanistan from Taliban despotism and promoting democracy and human rights. Instead, Washington has installed and maintained a stooge regime, headed by Hamid Karzai, which rigs election, carries out torture and repression on a wide scale, and steals without restraint. Full story...
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The latest incident brings the total of such attacks since the beginning of 2012 on US or NATO forces, dubbed “green on blue” incidents by US military spokesmen, to 32, resulting in 40 deaths. The number of soldiers wounded in such insider attacks is likely far greater, but concealed by a US-NATO policy of refusing to discuss non-fatal injuries.
(...)
These incidents have a significance far beyond the actual death toll, since they give a glimpse of the real relationship between an oppressed population and the US-NATO occupation, now approaching the end of its eleventh year.
The vast majority of the Afghan population opposes the US-NATO forces and the Karzai stooge regime. Hence the endless supply of recruits for the “Taliban,” the name the US military and media apply to any and all insurgents, most of them simply poor farmers who fight in and around the rural villages where their families live.
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Bush and Obama both claimed to be freeing the people of Afghanistan from Taliban despotism and promoting democracy and human rights. Instead, Washington has installed and maintained a stooge regime, headed by Hamid Karzai, which rigs election, carries out torture and repression on a wide scale, and steals without restraint. Full story...
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