Behind the Curtain of the new "Good War"

Chris Floyd

Ted Rall speaks a hard truth here, one that goes unspoken across the political spectrum, including among innumerable anti-war dissidents: "The war against Afghanistan is no different, no more justifiable, and no more winnable than the war against Iraq. Both were underfunded, poorly planned and based on lies. Neither had anything to do with 9/11." The absence of this truth from the national discourse guarantees that the country will continue to barrel down the dangerous, self-defeating road of misguided militarism...

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