afghanistan-more death

[araby]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Afghan-Violence.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Marines fleeing a militant ambush Sunday opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, wounded Afghans said. Up to 16 people were killed and 34 wounded in the violence, officials said.

A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-filled minivan as the American convoy approached, then militant gunmen fired on the troops inside the vehicles, who returned fire, the U.S. military said.


When I flew to Boston the guy next to me was an engineer in the Army and we talked the entire flight. He told me that Afghanistan was definitely worse than Iraq right now. The people there, he said, do not care about having a better life or government. When the American troops give the Afghani's guns and put them in a post, they just sit there and smoke weed instead.

I asked him what he thought the Afghani's really cared about-and he said he didn't know.

he also told me that he believes the reason we went to war in the first place was a lie. He was coming back from being in Iraq for six months and then Afghanistan for three months.

asked him forty questions. He didn't ask me one.