[Peace-discuss] Contrasting reviews on Joya

[David Green]

As previously noted, NYT

Joya is ill-inclined to look upon the American intervention as the Good War, instead maintaining, “We are caught between two enemies — the Taliban on one side and the U.S./NATO forces and their warlord friends on the other.” Joya’s arguments, which have earned the plaudits of people like Noam Chomsky, are sometimes extreme, simplistic and misguided, but they are rarely without a grain of truth, and they have also gained credence among her countrymen recently. Still, her tendency to choose rageful denunciation over calm observation is immensely frustrating. Anyone can fulminate; Joya can testify. And nothing could be more potent than a faithful recitation of her remarkable life.

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney12152009.html

"A Woman Among the Warlords" gives readers a glimpse of the vast destruction brought on by the US invasion. Joya repeatedly denounces Rumsfeld's strategy which replaced the fanatical Taliban with war criminals and human rights abusers. She also takes aim at the media which gave cover to the warlords by referring to them as the "Northern Alliance"--or the equally misleading--"United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan". As Joya points out, attitudes about the conflict have largely been shaped by disinformation, omissions and propaganda. Obama's Noble speech proves that those same lies will now be delivered by a more competent spokesman......
 
The war that one reads about in the media, is not the real war. It's a fiction created to justify occupation. "A Woman Among the Warlords" shreds many of the myths surrounding the war and reveals the truth behind the hype; that the United States deliberately handed over Afghanistan to a group of genocidal maniacs. The same policy persists to today, which is why it's time to bring the troops now.


      
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