_____ (2021-08-16). Opening and Closing US Embassies—From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan. commondreams.org "The only thing that we 'accomplished' by going into… Afghanistan was to put trillions of taxpayer dollars into the military-industrial complex and destroy millions of lives."

David Swanson (2021-08-16). Afghanistan: So What Do the Filthy Commie Peaceniks Say Now? zcomm.org The U.S. government, according to its own reporting, accounts for 66% of all the weapons exported to the least democratic quintile of nations on earth…

Moderator (2021-08-16). Anti-War Voices Say Afghanistan Shows Need to Stop Any Further March to War. scheerpost.com By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Amid the lightning collapse of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government and the all-but-certain return of Taliban rule, anti-war activists on Monday stressed that diplomacy, not bombs or the military-industrial complex, is the only path to lasting peace. The stunning but predictable Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan marks the end of the nearly 20-year U.S. |