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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1I agree mostly with what Mel says above , but despite the despicable behaviour of the politicians , we shouldn't concede Irish neutrality . Ireland isn't allied to the US , it's still a neutral country, just about .
It is disgraceful that the IAWM had a piece on the front page of its website last November expressing delight at Obama’s election victory ,and that the statement is actually still up on the site.
see : http://irishantiwar.org/node/292
Obama had said many times during the course of the US election campaign that he intended to escalate the war on Afghanistan which he characterised as "the good war" and to extend US military operations to Pakistan if neccessary . Now he is doing just that .
After Bush’s disaster of Iraq , a Republican Party president would not have got away so easily with escalating the war on Afghanistan . That was why important sections of the American military and ruling circles threw their weight behind Obama during the US election . The fact that the IAWM chose to pander to the illusion that Obama was anti-war rather than challenge that illusion makes the IAWM , or at least its supine leadership ,complicit in the terrible events now taking place in Afghanistan .The IAWM leadership was challenged on this issue at the time on this site ,but refused to take the article praising Obama’s victory from its site. See
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89890
"Why shouldn't the Taliban
- Stop the killings of innocent civilians
- To withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, and
- To change its foreign policy to prioritise peace and justice in the region instead of war and terror."
a) This is a statement from the IRISH anti-war movement, not the Afghan anti-war movement - it is our responsibility, as citizens of a state that is allied to the US, to challenge them. Any appeal from the IAWM to the Taliban would be meaningless - we have no means of bringing any political pressure to bear against them.
b) The Taliban can't very well "withdraw its troops from Afghanistan" since those troops are Afghani themselves.
c) The very same argument could have been made by the USSR twenty years ago - 'why should the Red Army leave Afghanistan before the fundamentalist terrorists lay down their arms?" Would you have agreed with them then? BTW, at that time the proto-Taliban was being funded by the USA.
The commander of US forces, General David McKiernan was replaced at the request of Robert Gates, a top former CIA official during the Clinton Adminstration who was appointed Secretary of Defence by former President George W Bush. McKiernan's replacement is Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, a special forces veteran commander who served on the Joint Special Operations Command which played a key role in the campaign of assassionations which killed Al-Zarqawi and other Al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq. McChrystal's deputy is General David Rodriquez who was an assistant to Gates and another top special forces commander. McKiernan who had previously served as an armoured commander during the 2003 invasion of Iraq was considered too conventionally minded for the counter insurgency warfare in Afghanistan. McChrystal has come under criticism for his role in the military's delay in acknowledging the "friendly fire" death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, a former NFL player, in Afghanistan in 2004, an incident likely to come up during confirmation hearings.
I see that Obama, somewhat embarrassed, no doubt, by the civilian deaths, has recalled (sacked) his commander out in Afghanistan. Any more news on medical allegations that phosphorus has been used there? And how can we be sure that troop carriers bound for Afghanistan are not stopping in Shannon, the new US military air base in Europe? Is Brian Cowen, heading into elections, satisfied that Ireland is now complicit in yet more US military slaughter?
Why shouldn't the Taliban
- Stop the killings of innocent civilians
- To withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, and
- To change its foreign policy to prioritise peace and justice in the region instead of war and terror.