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October 08, 2010 16:33:01 October 08, 2010 12:33:01 3 4 8:34 am (NYC) 1:34 pm (LON) 4:34 pm (MOW)
October 8, 2010
US war in Afghanistan enters 10th year
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Published 08 October, 2010, 01:14
Edited 08 October, 2010, 10:42
October 7th marked nine years since the United States initiated “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
Many are questioning why, so many years later, the US is still at war in Afghanistan.
“We’re there because no US president, no US politician is willing to say, this is a failed war from the beginning, we should never have been there from the beginning, we should get out. No one is willing to say what they are afraid will look like a defeat. The reality is, it has been a defeat,” said Phyllis Bennis, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
She argued that the war was a defeat from the beginning and than many Americans spoke out against the war nine years ago before it began.
“It has been a failure ever since,” she added. “If they want to declare it a victory, this is something once called in Vietnam, just declare it a victory and get out.”
Iraq war veteran and anti-war activist Adam Kokesh argued that there was due cause to go into Afghanistan following 9/11 in pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and those responsible, however the US did not need to engage in all out war.
“The significance of this day is just another milestone in the failure of the current paradigm of American foreign policy,” said Kokesh.
U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Zachary Wolf / ISAF
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October 08, 2010 16:33:01 October 08, 2010 12:33:01 3 4 8:34 am (NYC) 1:34 pm (LON) 4:34 pm (MOW)
October 8, 2010
US war in Afghanistan enters 10th year
[URL="http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-08/usa-war-afghanistan-taliban.html/print"] (http://rt.com/Top_News.html)
Published 08 October, 2010, 01:14
Edited 08 October, 2010, 10:42
October 7th marked nine years since the United States initiated “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
Many are questioning why, so many years later, the US is still at war in Afghanistan.
“We’re there because no US president, no US politician is willing to say, this is a failed war from the beginning, we should never have been there from the beginning, we should get out. No one is willing to say what they are afraid will look like a defeat. The reality is, it has been a defeat,” said Phyllis Bennis, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
She argued that the war was a defeat from the beginning and than many Americans spoke out against the war nine years ago before it began.
“It has been a failure ever since,” she added. “If they want to declare it a victory, this is something once called in Vietnam, just declare it a victory and get out.”
Iraq war veteran and anti-war activist Adam Kokesh argued that there was due cause to go into Afghanistan following 9/11 in pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and those responsible, however the US did not need to engage in all out war.
“The significance of this day is just another milestone in the failure of the current paradigm of American foreign policy,” said Kokesh.
U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Zachary Wolf / ISAF
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