January 10, 2011 - My annual visits to Peshawar, the city of my birth, have always been exciting. To see family and friends and revisit the haunts of my childhood and youth are always reassuring and refreshing. And to be able to squeeze in time for some teaching at the university just tops it off.
Peshawar has changed in many ways because of the war in Afghanistan 30 miles to the west across the Khyber Pass.
The city has changed, as any city would that is so close to war and mayhem, but not in any discernible or visible ways.
The bazaars are chock-full of all kinds of traffic: cars, rickshaws, motor scooters, bicycles, and pedestrians. Behind this chaotic normalcy are the tensions and anxiety that come to the surface even during casual conversation, with people here.
When you ask two Pakistanis about a certain issue, you get three conflicting opinions. But on some subjects there is total unanimity of opinion. The people do not like the war in Afghanistan and believe America is destroying their country by waging a futile and unwinnable war there. {continued}
We know the costs in blood, never to totally in civilians, but what of the costs in treasury still not paid! How much to buy the coalition of the willing, how much to buy the CIA rendition and secret prisons globalizing torture, how much for the decades to come as to the results of both wars, more. Neither has been paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficit rises started Before 9/11 and nothing as to the peoples responsibility, the VA, as to just one of the needs in those results from!
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In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Pakistani's: "U.S. is destroying our country"
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