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Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

The United States boasts of its proud tradition of nation-building. After World War II, ‘the reconstruction spending by the United States greatly increased the security of the rest of the world.’ Today, global security is said to be directly linked to ‘addressing the socioeconomic roots of terrorism by “devoting resources to narrowing the gap [...]