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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 15, 2022
The game may be almost over.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies put it this way:
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Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War by Chris Hedges
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
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Truthdig
March 19, 2012
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that you are losing despite the vast industrial killing machine at your disposal—feeds the culture of atrocity. The fear and stress, the anger and hatred, reduce all Afghans to the enemy, and this includes women, children and the elderly. Civilians and combatants merge into one detested nameless, faceless mass. The psychological leap to murder is short. And murder happens every day in Afghanistan. It happens in drone strikes, artillery bombardments, airstrikes, missile attacks and the withering suppressing fire unleashed in villages from belt-fed machine guns.
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