MURDERERS ON THE LOOSE

Where is international law? Even the law of war would do.

We hear that the cost of prosecuting the Afghan War against the “infidels” – otherwise subhumans – is going to cost more that the trashing of Iraq.

The New York Times is such a refined, even aspirant liberal newspaper but read the headline and the article. No need to disguise barbarity and brutality with sub text. This is the hundred years war and we are waging and we aim to kill as many of the subhumans as possible. James Risen reports:

Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list to be captured or killed, reflecting a major shift in American counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, according to a Congressional study to be released this week.

They attacked us in 2001, and it has been approved by Congress. We are the lords of the globe and we can murder whoever and whenever we please.

Stop the murderers – if for no other reason than sanity. One set of murders leads to another set of murders, and so the merry-go-round goes until the music stops. Then what do you have left: Iraq?

Pathetic, and beneath contempt.

ELSEWHERE:

Mark Juergensmeyer, via Waging Nonviolence, describes a more honorable, even more intelligent, course of action. I suggest that the US is not merely seen as an occupying power, it is acting like an imperial power. Sometimes, even when the cause is apparently hopeless, it is best to think that people might behave better. They might respond to the better angels of their nature.

At Democracy Now, David Wise reviews. “The CIA license to Kill”.

Public opinion as recorded by a CNN poll shows that for the first time the majority of respondents were against the war in Afghanistan. Public opinion counts for nothing in the PR world.

Chris Floyd observes observes an addiction.

UPDATE:

ABC News reports Australian soldiers at a check point have shot an Afghan police officer. The check point was approached two policemen on a unidentified motor bike. There is to be an inquiry.

The same news report also says that Australian military and other foreign troops are involved in providing security for the upcoming elections, opposed by the Pashtun nationalist resistance (or are all the opponents the religiously inspired and trained Taliban?).