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Felicity Arbuthnot
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth,
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face And the international wrong. (W.H. Auden, 1907-1973.)
What a murderous, infanticidel, appalling, shameful, ignorant – and arguable, decade-long war crime.
"Operation Enduring Freedom", turned "Operation Enduring Slaughter."
Announcing the assault on Afghanistan on 7th October 2001, George W. Bush said, citing "Enduring Freedom", that it defended: "... the freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free from fear."
Further, that: "If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves, (a) lonely path ..."
Moreover: " the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we'll also drop food, medicine and supplies, to the starving and suffering men, women and children of Afghanistan."
"We're a peaceful nation", the President assured the world.
In London, "ally", the then Prime Minister Blair was reading from the same script: "We are peaceful people. But we know that sometimes to safeguard peace, we have to fight ... We only do it if the cause is jus [...]
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Felicity Arbuthnot
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth,
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face And the international wrong. (W.H. Auden, 1907-1973.)
What a murderous, infanticidel, appalling, shameful, ignorant – and arguable, decade-long war crime."Operation Enduring Freedom", turned "Operation Enduring Slaughter."
Announcing the assault on Afghanistan on 7th October 2001, George W. Bush said, citing "Enduring Freedom", that it defended: "... the freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free from fear."
Further, that: "If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves, (a) lonely path ..."
Moreover: " the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we'll also drop food, medicine and supplies, to the starving and suffering men, women and children of Afghanistan."
"We're a peaceful nation", the President assured the world.
In London, "ally", the then Prime Minister Blair was reading from the same script: "We are peaceful people. But we know that sometimes to safeguard peace, we have to fight ... We only do it if the cause is jus [...]
Submit your suggestion / comments / complaints / Takedown request on lookyp.com@gmail.com
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