“We Did Not Choose This War” and Other Hypocrisies''

From FireDogLake

''The Afghan people have responded just as almost any would to an attack.  They have seen their “homeland violated” and their “fellow citizens killed,” and they are reacting in self-defense.  Because they are fighting back, we label them “insurgents” and call them the enemy. Then we label violence caused by the enemy “terrorism,” and somehow use this rhetoric to justify killing innocent people … collateral damage we call it.  This is a vicious cycle that cannot resolve itself, except by the removal of the occupying army.

What do you think the Afghan people call the violence that we impose on them?  How can we as Americans be so callous, so blinded by our own misplaced righteousness, that we can’t see that we are guilty of the very thing that we claim to be fighting?  Perhaps to some extent we do see it.  A majority of people in the United States tell pollsters they want the war ended.  We forget we’re a majority because nobody ever mentions us on television.''

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