The terror campaign by U.S. imperialism against the people
of Afghanistan has led to another massacre of children.
If Iran or Syria or Russia massacred children, it would be
top news in the U.S. mass media.
U.S./NATO massacres of innocent children, however, merit a
few short paragraphs buried at the very bottom of the Digest briefs column of
page 8 on the Feb. 14 Washington Post.
What happened? A six-year-old boy and seven other children
under the age of 15 were mutilated by NATO bombers near the village of Giawa in
eastern Afghanistan.
The children were bombed not once but twice while they were
herding sheep. The boys had lit a fire to keep warm during a heavy snow when
NATO aircraft blew them to pieces, according to officials of the Afghan
government.
A NATO general used the usual throwaway line when asked
about this most recent massacre of Afghan civilians: “any death of innocents
not associated with armed conflict is a tragedy,” stated NATO official Brig.
Gen. Carsten Jacobson.
Mutilating and murdering a group children “not associated
with armed conflict” is not a tragedy. It is murder and a war crime.
This is a U.S. war of occupation. NATO is a cover, a fig
leaf for one of many current Pentagon military operations. It is not a war to
defend the people of the United States. Like Iraq, and Vietnam before it, this
is an imperial war for empire.
The people of the United States demand that the decade-long
war that has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Afghans be ended
immediately and that the perpetrators of war crimes be arrested and tried for
their crimes.
The
ANSWER Coalition has initiated a demonstration on March 27, 2012 in Baltimore,
Md., to protest the speaking engagement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former
commander of the U.S./NATO in Afghanistan. McChrystal is notorious for the use
of assassinations and other death squad tactics conducted under his leadership
by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
