Jeffrey Brown speaks with editorial page editors about the public's view on the war in Afghanistan and increasing doubts over sending more troops.JIM LEHRER: The prospect of expanding the American presence in Afghanistan ran into new opposition today. It came as the nation marked the anniversary of 9/11, the event that triggered the war in Afghanistan.
Ray Suarez has our lead story report........Rest of Transcript Here
Afghanistan stopped having anything to do with 9/11 as soon as the drums of war of choice started beating louder and louder to invade Iraq, a country and people who had nothing to do with any attack nor threat on the United States! We're still in Iraq, stalemated, after destroying their country, killing their citizens, creating huge numbers of refugee's from and causing the ongoing rising again sectarian violence!
Now we return to Afghanistan with growing troop numbers and deaths after leaving it occupied with sparse US/UN troop numbers, not enough to secure and start the promised rebuilding, and pulling out the promised rebuilding monies after the fall of the Taliban! We attack, with robot armed planes, drones, into Pakistan killing innocents creating a growing number of Taliban and al Qaeda insurgents, those who live in the whole region.
It's now a War/Occupation with no reason except so called containment of a ghost organization of insurgent criminal terrorists called al Qaeda, ghosts because any group seeking retaliation and blowback from the policies set forth, even before 9/11 but especially since, will use that banner to organize and cause criminal terrorist acts under, no border guerrilla warfare. Creating the hatreds that will now last for decades to come!
Many here still think that we can be the only ones who should continue seeking vengeance on those that were a part of 9/11, even those that had nothing to do with those acts, yet the leaders of are still not caught, and condemn those who now have been witness to much more destruction and deaths from our long running vengeance! They feel those in these countries should bow to our power and have no right to feel the hate they do, the same hatreds some still feel towards them, most of whom are innocent citizens living in the countries of their births. Those that still seek this vengeance shouldn't be surprised if any Blowback from the terror we waged on their countries develops from their daily 9/11's!!
This was all left to a new administration in the U.S., as well as other Western Countries, along with collapsing economies, called for as a goal by the leaders of this ghost group al Qaeda after 9/11. Collapsing because of the costs of our occupying and the greed and arrogance embedded within these economies in many area's of, and a whole host of negative problems for a once leading country on this planet, many of the people of wanting to lead by example, example of the positive not of a negative destructive force creating hatreds towards it!
It is up to the people to come together and try and create the positive among themselves in order to minimize the extreme negatives of the small groups bent of their own vengeance or power and wealth grabbing!
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Added Report of Recent NATO Bombing
Victims' families tell their stories following Nato airstrike in Afghanistan
'I took some flesh home and called it my son.' The Guardian interviews 11 villagers
At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage of two fuel tankers that had been hit by a Nato airstrike. They picked their way through a heap of almost a hundred charred bodies and mangled limbs which were mixed with ash, mud and the melted plastic of jerry cans, looking for their brothers, sons and cousins. They called out their names but received no answers. By this time, everyone was dead.
What followed is one of the more macabre scenes of this or any war. The grief-stricken relatives began to argue and fight over the remains of the men and boys who a few hours earlier had greedily sought the tanker's fuel. Poor people in one of the world's poorest countries, they had been trying to hoard as much as they could for the coming winter.
"We didn't recognise any of the dead when we arrived," said Omar Khan, the turbaned village chief of Eissa Khail. "It was like a chemical bomb had gone off, everything was burned. The bodies were like this," he brought his two hands together, his fingers curling like claws. "There were like burned tree logs, like charcoal.............
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