May 12, 2005- Anti-American demonstrations spread into 10 of 34 Afghan provinces-four more deaths in the third day of protests. Now students are at the forefront of the rebellion against U S occupation and the puppet government of President Karzai. Sounds like Viet Nam. The catalyst was a report carried by Newsweek of a desecration of the Koran by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The lingering memories of Iraq's Abu Ghraib scandal led Afghanis to believe the story. Particularly since Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was still in office. He is the rightful target of blame by both Americans and the Afghanis for those abuses of prisoners.
What happened to the " Arab Spring"? Reporters from the "New York Times",David Brooks and Thomas L. Friedman; free-wheeling columnist Charles Krauthammer; and Jeff Jacoby of the "Boston Globe" and other copy boys that listen to William Kristol of The Project for the New American Century have all promised that just one more redrawing of the Middle Eastern map would change everything for the better.
That gaggle of geese will not pay attention to the facts of an Afghanistan and Iraq civil war until the facts change. Maybe they should hold their breath till those facts get better.
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