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Afghanistan: Not a Good War
Commondreams.org Views — Every war has a story line. World War I was “the war to end all wars.” World War II was “the war to defeat fascism.” Iraq was sold as a war to halt weapons of mass destruction; then to overthrow Saddam Hussein, then to build democracy. In the end it was a fabrication built on a falsehood and anchored in a fraud. But Afghanistan is the “good war,” aimed at “those who attacked us,” in the words of columnist Frank Rich . It is “the war of necessity,” asserts the New York Times , to roll back the “power of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.” Barack Obama is making the ...

Afghanistan: Not a Good War
Antiwar.com Original — E very war has a story line. World War I was "the war to end all wars." World War II was "the war to defeat fascism." Iraq was sold as a war to halt weapons of mass destruction; then to overthrow Saddam Hussein, then to build democracy. In the end it was a fabrication built on a falsehood and anchored in a fraud. But Afghanistan is the "good war," aimed at "those who attacked us," in the words of columnist Frank Rich . It is "the war of necessity," asserts the New York Times , to roll back the "power of al-Qaeda and the Taliban." Barack Obama is making the ...