[R-G] Hedges: War Without Purpose

[Intense Red]

 > There is no shortage of backwaters and broken patches of the Earth where
 > al-Qaida can hide and operate. It does not need Afghanistan, and neither do
 > we. 

   Hedges makes a number of very good points in this article. But it's a case 
of cleverly seeing symptoms and not addressing the disease; Hedges falls down 
in a very big way with the article's above quoted ending, his entire premise 
of why the US is in Afghanistan.

   The US doesn't give a rat's ass about Al Queda and that's not the reason 
we're there. The US is in Afghanistan to implement its "Silk Road Strategy".

   By not addressing the entire disease, Hedges sets himself up to fail based 
on "national security" arguments levelled by hawks. And he fails to even 
begin to counter the imperialism and militarism that is the core of US 
foreign policy.


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