another u.s. bombing of pakistan today. as with gaza, the congo, no public outcry. more death and displacement. more euphemisms to mask the death of innocent civilians:
A senior security official told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that “the strike overnight destroyed the house of a tribesman Sakhi Mohammad in the Bannu district”.
“At least two foreigners were among five killed,” the official said.
Pakistani security forces often use the term “foreigners” to refer to suspected al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters.
Pakistani officials said the missiles were launched from Afghanistan, where at least 32,000 US troops are fighting the Taliban and other fighters.
it is worth reading this piece in full by george wilson called “perils of pakistan: will it prove to be obama’s cambodia?” here is a snipet from the longer piece.
Now think “Pakistan” to hear the same ring. Four days later — on May 4, 1970 — National Guardsmen killed four student anti-war protesters on the campus of Kent State in Ohio.
Those two events, coming right on top of each other, mobilized anti-war lawmakers in Congress to curb the president’s war-making powers and to cut off the money the South Vietnamese army needed to continue fighting the war after U.S. troops left the field under Nixon’s Vietnamization strategy.
The military defeat Johnson had feared all along, without saying so publicly, came in 1975 when Communist North Vietnam conquered capitalist South Vietnam.
Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia, even though his announced purpose was just to clean out the border sanctuaries, contributed to Cambodia’s political turmoil.
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