Connecting Folks, One Bomb at a Time

[BridgeTheGap]

In what one website is calling the “the most disgusting piece of agitprop you’ll read for a while,” a senior U.S. military official was quoted in The Washington Post as saying that the damage to Afghan land and property from bombings accompanying the escalation of military operations to the highest levels in the history of the U.S. war in that country will have a benefit for the local population: "By making people travel to the district governor's office to submit a claim for damaged property, in effect, you're connecting the government to the people,” the senior officer said.

Well, that’s one way to look at it, I suppose. But here’s another that comes from retired Air Force lieutenant colonel William Astore via TomDispatch:

Or how about the attitudes of those living in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan subject to the recent upsurge of U.S. drone strikes? Given the way our robotic wars are written about here, could most Americans imagine what it feels like to be on the receiving end of Zeus-like lightning bolts?

Here’s what one farmer in North Waziristan in the Pakistani tribal borderlands had to say: “I blame the government of Pakistan and the USA… they are responsible for destroying my family. We were living a happy life and I didn’t have any links with the Taliban. My family members were innocent… I wonder, why was I victimized?”

http://www.utne.com/Politics/Afghanistan-Bombing-Connecting-Government-To-People.aspx?utm_content=11.23.10+Srirituality&utm_campaign=UTR_ENEWS&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email

[TheIdiot]

1. Yeah... sound slike they're starting to think...

a lot like I do: End this fucking war!

[cognoscere]

2. What septic tank are these people getting their brains from?

And why are they being made senior military officials? What's next, drive-by shooting victims becoming closer to the police? Arson victims getting to know their fire department better? That senior military official could probably rationalize the Holocaust.