According to NATO’s own figures, the use of roadside bombs as a tactic of resistance against NATO forces in Afghanistan has risen over 80 percent this year. In 2008 alone, occupation forces were hit with 3,276 IEDs on the roads of the country.
U.S. air strikes have killed hundreds of Afghani civillians this year alone. The Pentagon, in response to widespread condemnation, has recently admitted that a bombing strike in Farah that killed 140 civilians was a “mistake.”
Recently, the Pentagon made another “mistake.” An air strike was called off shortly before it would have massacred workers laboring at a brick factory.
The Pentagon’s “troop surge” of 21,000 extra U.S. troops is currently underway. In an attempt to provide cover for its aggression, the Pentagon and the media have gone to great lengths to frame the war in Afghanistan as the “good” war.
The reality: Afghanistan is a war for profit and domination. The occupation of Afghanistan should end immediately.
