Opium, Rape and the American Way

“In eight years less than 2,000 Talib have been killed and more than 8,000 innocent civilians has been killed,” she [Malalai Joya] went on. “We believe that this is not war on terror. This is war on innocent civilians. Look at the massacres carried out by NATO forces in Afghanistan. Look what they did in May in the Farah province, where more than 150 civilians were killed, most of them women and children. They used white phosphorus and cluster bombs. There were 200 civilians on 9th of September killed in the Kunduz province, again most of them women and children. You can see the Web site of professor Marc Herold, this democratic man, to know better the war crimes in Afghanistan imposed on our people. The United States and NATO eight years ago occupied my country under the banner of woman’s rights and democracy. But they have only pushed us from the frying pan into the fire. They put into power men who are photocopies of the Taliban.”

So, how is the war in Afghanistan going? An assessment from an insider, Malalai Joya, does not jibe with the news we get from our mainstream media.