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Blogs Eric Reads
Don’t Know Much About Geography
Sarah Palin, demonstrating her impeccable foreign policy credentials, doesn’t know where we’re at war:
Three days after a mostly gaffe-free debate performance, the Alaska governor fumbled during a speech in which she praised U.S. soldiers for “fighting terrorism and protecting us and our democratic values”.
“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.
Ah, yes, our lovely neighbors to the (Middle) East. Even if you count Iraq as an occupied territory of the United States, there’s still a little problem called Iran, or, as John McCain prefers to call it, the Iraq-Pakistan border.
But John McCain was a POW and Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, so we just have to trust them more on foreign policy than someone who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Veterans’ Affairs Committees and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
John McCain, Foreign Policy Expert
Because knowing how to win wars and knowing where we’re fighting wars apparently have nothing in common:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) refused to call the situation in Afghanistan “precarious and urgent,” but admitted that “We have a lot of work to do.” He warned of a “very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.”
Ah yes, the periolous Iraq-Pakistan border, otherwise known as Iran.
Maybe in John McCain’s mind, he’s already skipped ahead to the part of his presidency where he has bomb bomb bomb, bomb bombed Iran and absorbed it into the “sovreign” nation of Iraq that he would have us occupy for a hundred years. Until then, though, maybe he ought to check out a map before he starts showing off more of that famous foreign policy expertise.
The Other War
Can’t forget about Afghanistan:
A roadside bomb killed three service members and a local-national interpreter in a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.
With the deaths, the number of foreign forces in Afghanistan killed in June has reached 39, the highest monthly toll of the war, according to a CNN count of official figures.
Onward to victory!
Afghan Women Worse Than Ever Before
Grinding poverty and the escalating war is driving an increasing number of Afghan families to sell their daughters into forced marriages.
Girls as young as six are being married into a life of slavery and rape, often by multiple members of their new relatives. Banned from seeing their own parents or siblings, they are also prohibited from going to school. With little recognition of the illegality of the situation or any effective recourse, many of the victims are driven to self-immolation – burning themselves to death – or severe self-harm.
Six years after the US and Britain “freed” Afghan women from the oppressive Taliban regime, a new report proves that life is just as bad for most, and worse in some cases.
It makes me proud to see that our decisive victory over the Taliban in August 2004, and then two years later in September ‘06, and then again in August of 2007, and then once more last December helped to liberate women from the oppressive rule of the Taliban.