People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts,” Haji Akhtar Mohammed Shinwari said as he recalled how the US military had brought death to his homeland.
For residents of Shinwar, a village in distant Nangahar province, the message from President Karzai’s address yesterday that the Americans would hand over security over the next five years was disappointing.
At the village bazaar, Mr Shinwari told The Times that he could not wait that long. In 2007, a unit of special forces was speeding along a busy road a few miles from his village when they opened fire, killing 19 people and wounding 50. The unit responsible was sent home and the local US commander described the incident as a “stain on our honour”. He paid out almost $40,000 (£25,000) in compensation.'
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Do you think this is just a Propaganda piece from the looney left to convince people to stay in the war? It is coming from the leftist NYT.
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I understand your comment and I believe it can be taken both ways, both in the sense that the unawakened masses may see it as ' We better stay there and sort the ragheads out' or to the more critical thinkers that can understand the levels of death and destruction that NATO and the US have brought to their country. The best way I think is to put yourself in their shoes. Not sure where you are from Lori but imagine this was your country!
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