This article is a VERY worthy swan song of Eric Margolis. It pushes SO MANY buttons, making classification difficult. A true journalist's master piece, hitting so many targets and with excellent appropriate quotes by masters!!! Here is but one of his targets highlighting the hypocrisy of US/CIA Islamophobia with their selective highlighting of female rights where it suits! Maybe if Command Rape was not so prevalent on fellow female Americans soldiers, their crocodile tears might be seen as more appropriate.
Punishing the WikiLeaker misses the point
By ERIC MARGOLIS, QMI Agency
Last Updated: August 15, 2010
a wretched Afghan girl whose nose had been cut off by her backwards tribal in-laws.
She was turned into a pro-war martyr.
This crime was immediately blamed without evidence on Taliban and served up as the reason why the Western powers had to garrison Afghanistan.
No pictures of Afghans blown to bits or maimed by U.S. bombs were published. No mentions of oil and gas.
Uncoincidentally, a few months ago, in response to Europe’s growing opposition to the Afghan War, the CIA reportedly advised NATO the best way to keep marketing the Afghan War to the public was claiming it was a crusade to protect women’s rights.
Inconveniently, the U.S. and Canada’s Afghan allies — Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazara — mistreat their women as badly as Taliban’s Pashtun.
When I served in the U.S. Army, we were taught it was our duty to report up the chain of command all violations of the Geneva Conventions and war crimes. These included killing civilians, torture, reprisals, and executions.
Manning reportedly sought to report to his superiors just such crimes committed in Afghanistan by some U.S. forces and their local allies and mercenaries.
He was ignored.
Manning was thrown into solitary confinement and faces a long prison term.
His case recalls another courageous whistleblower, Israeli technician Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel’s large nuclear arsenal, was kidnapped, served 17 years in solitary, and still remains a semi-prisoner.
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