American Views Abroad

 
'In other words, you have a war launched by a country whose people, in a personal sense, can hardly know that it's going on and it's being fought in a country that has been taken apart and ravaged more or less down to the last citizen. Or think of it this way: the forgotten rural American dead are the Iraqis of the American war. I leave you to wonder about what the Iraqi dead are.'
The Forgotten American Dead - Rural America Pays the President's Price in Iraq by Tom Engelhardt at www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=160190.

The Stars and Stripes article on the court-martial proceedings of Army medic Agustin Aguayo at www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43077. Aguayo served a year in Iraq. He has applied for and is still seeking conscientious objector status and has refused to serve a second tour in Iraq.
- posted by Gloria @ 2:40 PM