Saturday, March 24, 2012

Afghanistan 3/11

AP Photo/Allauddin Khan
Men stand next to blood stains and charred remains inside a home where witnesses say Afghans were killed by a US soldier in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan.


March 11, 2012...03/11.

• Akhtar Mohamed (son of Murrad Ali)
• Esmatullah, age 16 (son of Mohamed Wazir)
• Essa Mohamed (son of Mohamed Hussain)
• Faizullah, age 9 (son of Mohamed Wazir)
• Farida (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)
• Khudaydad (son of Mohamed Juma)
• Masooma (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)
• Mohamed Dawood (son of Abdullah)
• Nabia (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)
• Nazar Mohamed
• Nazia (daughter of Dost Mohamed)
• Palwasha (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)
• Payendo
• Robeena
• Shatarina (daughter of Sultan Mohamed)
• Zahra (daughter of Abdul Hamid)
Not yet named

Blog entry on Daily Kos by Meteor Blades 

Staff Sargeant Bales doesn't represent or reflect on all members of the military. 
By and large, the United States armed forces are reasonable people in a crappy situation.  War is messed up.

Militarily, it's long past time to get out of Afghanistan.  We screwed it up and we can't unscrew it up by staying - things just get worse.
We could/should try to keep a humanitarian presence though.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Trayvon Martin

Brian Blanco/EPA
A resident holds up a photo of 17 year old Trayvon Martin during a protest rally in Sanford, Fla., March 201, 2012

Eight talking points about the possibly fatal condition of being black.