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Blog Entries by Tom Engelhardt from 04/2009

The Great Afghan Bailout

| Posted 04.01.2009 | World
Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Obama Foriegn Policy, Afpak, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, World News

In the name of realism and accuracy, shouldn't we retire "the Afghan War" and begin talking about the far more disturbing "Af-Pak War"?

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Terminator Planet

| Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
Read More: UAVs, The Terminator, Terminator Salvation, US Drone Missiles, US Missile Drones, Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Politics News

As you watch the Terminator movie, actual unmanned aerial vehicles armed with Hellfire missiles will be patrolling our expanding global battlefields, hunting down human beings.

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Killing Civilians

| Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Awal Khan, Civilian Casualties, Collateral Damage, Afghanistan War, World News

In Afghanistan, civilian deaths are inseparable from this war while the killing of soldiers might be thought of as collateral activity.

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