Via Antiwar.com: At least six Afghan civilians have been killed and 14 more wounded as US helicopters attacked them overnight in the Kandahar Province. The strikes came after a US patrol came under fire, though it remains unclear if any militants were actually killed in the strike. Airstrikes ordered in response to U.S. troops under [...]
Archive for July, 2009
At Least Six Civilians Killed in Another U.S. Airstrike in Afghanistan
Posted: July 17, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, civilian deaths
1
Costs: July 2009 Already Deadliest Month of Afghanistan War
Posted: July 15, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, defense spending
July is already the deadliest month to date for coalition forces in Afghanistan, only 15 days into the month. Coalition fatalities in the month of July so far, listed by name, age, and branch of military service: Mevlüt, Baydur, 39, Turkish Army Sungur, Faruk, 51, Turkish Army Di Lisio, Alessandro, 25, Italian Army Spicer, David [...]
ONN: Military Freaks Out About Budget Cuts
Posted: July 15, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: defense spending, Obama, Onion News Network
Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon
Wall Street Journal: “We Really Wish We Could Show You Proof for Our Drone Propaganda…”
Posted: July 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: associated press, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones, Jeremy Scahill, militarism, Predator, propaganda, Reaper, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal‘s recent editorial [h/t Jeremy Scahill] supporting the CIA’s drone war over Pakistan is rank propaganda. In it, the editors denounce critics of drone strikes who rely on reporters instead of unnamed intelligence sources with unverifiable claims, and they assert that drones–which have killed roughly 800 civilians so far in Pakistan–are humane: [...]
Frogs and Hot Water and All That
Posted: July 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Center for Strategic and International Studies, escalation, Every War Must End, Fred Charles Iklé, nonviolence, Normon Solomon, Obama, pacifism, Petraeus, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal
Someone holding the purse strings (that’s you, Congress) better decide right now how much taxpayer money and how many dead U.S. soldiers are a fair price for “victory” in Afghanistan, because any minute now you’re going to receive a request for more blood and treasure. Specifically, the Pentagon wants more money to grow the Afghan [...]
Costs
Posted: July 11, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
U.S. military casualties in Afghanistan since the launch of Operation Khanjar (July 2): Hayes, John E., age 36 Hager, Roger G., age 20 Tate, Darren Ethan, age 21 Missman , Gregory James, age 36 Roy, Michael C., age 25 Missman, Gregory J., age 36 Talbert, Christopher, age 24 Garner, Mark A., age 30 Williams, Derwin, [...]
Frequent Return Good for Evil commenter Sporkmaster is home safe from Iraq. We’re glad you made it back safe and sound! I look forward to hearing more from you once you’re rested and readjusted.
Sliding Goalposts
Posted: July 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Good Samaritan, Jesus, logic, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, Pete Kilner, violence
Today I came across Joan Baez’s “funny defense” against the “What would you do if…?” critique of pacifism. It’s a fantastic short read, and I’d recommend it to anyone who’s ever been pinned in a corner by hypothetical arguments about the necessity of violence in some situations (although Baez is wrong about Jesus’s teachings counseling [...]
Use of Drones in Pakistan Violates Christian Doctrine on War
Posted: July 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: al-Qaida, Christianity, civilian casualties, drones, Jesus, just war tradition, nonviolence, Pakistan, Taliban
Christians–whether we are adherents of just war tradition or of Christian nonviolence–should not support U.S. policies that kill civilians indiscriminately. However, in the past six days, our government has intensified a policy that does exactly that. The number of suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have spiked dramatically since Friday, July 3, with four strikes [...]
Costs
Posted: July 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Ghazni, military casualties, Operation Khanjar
U.S. military casualties since the launch of Operation Khanjar (July 2): NAME NOT RELEASED YET Derwin Williams, age 41 NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET Tony Michael Randolph, age 22 Aaron E. Fairbairn, age 20 Justin A. Casillas, age 19 Charles S. Sharp, age 20 [...]
