What They Do in Our Name  NJTODAY.NET's online business
directory  by Sheldon Richman  Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic
leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has
killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of
heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence
personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys.
Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad
guys at all. “Bad guys,” like “Taliban,” is implicitly defined
as anyone who resists the U.S. occupation force and the corrupt
puppet government it keeps in power.  What other atrocities are
our misleaders and misrepresentatives committing in our name?
Let’s get something straight: to be an enemy of American
occupation, bombing, and “nation building” is not the same thing
as being an enemy of America or its people. It’s time Americans
understood that. When you invade another country and people
there object, even forcibly, they are not aggressors. You are.
To understand this, imag