The Great Game will not be over any sooner..
If that all is true, this means that the United States has decided to kill him at a particular moment, or tried to kill him, or at least publicised the fact that they are trying to kill him. In other words, the whole goal of this announcement in addition to the actual killing of this particular leader of the Taliban, is to make a political point; and I think that "Political Point" is that Obama Administration, as it prepares to leave office and hand the war over to the next administration, is signalling that the real consensus in Washington is endless war in Afghanistan, something the Afghan people deserved a break from. I mean, its been sixteen years, tens of thousands of Afghans are dead, they had nothing to do with the September 11th attack (meaning the Afghan people), and here we have a war that just will go on and on and on... It has to end.
(Brian Baker, Director, anti war A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition.)
If that all is true, this means that the United States has decided to kill him at a particular moment, or tried to kill him, or at least publicised the fact that they are trying to kill him. In other words, the whole goal of this announcement in addition to the actual killing of this particular leader of the Taliban, is to make a political point; and I think that "Political Point" is that Obama Administration, as it prepares to leave office and hand the war over to the next administration, is signalling that the real consensus in Washington is endless war in Afghanistan, something the Afghan people deserved a break from. I mean, its been sixteen years, tens of thousands of Afghans are dead, they had nothing to do with the September 11th attack (meaning the Afghan people), and here we have a war that just will go on and on and on... It has to end.
(Brian Baker, Director, anti war A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition.)
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