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Afghanistan: Ten Years of Illegal Occupation

Afghanistan: Ten Years of Illegal Occupation | Global Research TV

October 7th marks the ten year anniversary of the commencement of NATO operations in Afghanistan. Although the impending illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 was enough to drive millions of people worldwide into the streets in protest, there has never been the same widespread resistance to the Afghan war.

This war has been deemed the “right war” and given a broad measure of support from across the political spectrum because it is still linked in the popular imagination with the events of 9/11. Even a cursory interrogation of these assumptions, however, reveals the absurd nature of this pretext for what has been all along an illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation. (more…)

Petraeus warns of deteriorating US-Pakistan relations

Source: AFP
US General David Petraeus admitted Wednesday there was no option but to work on troubled relations with Pakistan, days after standing down from his job at the helm of coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Speaking in Paris on his way to his new job as CIA chief, the most celebrated military leader of his generation said Afghanistan’s neighbour wanted to eliminate Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants but was struggling.

“They’ll be the first to say that there are limits to how much they can do,” said the man who headed the United States’ longest-running war for the last year, with less territory controlled by militants today but civilian deaths up.

“They have a lot of short sticks in hornets nests right now and they have to consolidate some of those gains.”

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