We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. War is still the biggest business in America.
U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah killed another civilian in the area, bringing the civilian death toll from the operation to at least 16. U.S.-led troops have been pushing south from the town center against a pocket of Taliban fighters. Twelve NATO troops have died so far in the offensive in Helmand province, and senior Marine officers say intelligence reports suggest more than 120 insurgents have died. Sen. John McCain in an article which ran in the Wall 5treet Journal exhorting the White House to escalate the war in Afghanistan. “Get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must.”
