‘I was very concerned about the exploitation of that personal family tragedy in order to make a case for keeping American troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which so many Afghans have suffered’ | duckrabbit

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‘I was very concerned about the exploitation of that personal family tragedy in order to make a case for keeping American troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which so many Afghans have suffered’ — duckrabbit

Remember Aisha? The poster girl of how great our invasion of Afghanistan has been. The girl who has her ears…

via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/10/i-was-very-concerned-about-the-exploitation-of-that-personal-family-tragedy-in-order-to-make-a-case-for-keeping-american-troops-in-afghanistan-and-continuing-this-war-in-which-so-many-afghans-have/

an excerpt from an interesting interview with the journalist Ann Jones who also interviewed Aisha several weeks before Time got there