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Friend,
Over the last two weeks, the corporate media's take on Afghanistan has
gone something like this:
Afghanistan was a good and necessary war at the outset. If we'd only
planned a little better and stayed a little longer, we wouldn't have any
of these problems we see now.
But in large part, the corporate media is as much to blame as anyone for
marching the U.S. into the war and allowing its obvious failures to go
unaddressed for nearly two decades.
The sad reality—which Common Dreams readers have known since 2001—is
that the U.S. war in Afghanistan was never desirable or just—and it was
never going to be "winnable." It was always an exercise in American
imperialism and what we see today is the entirely predictable outcome of
20 years of occupation, misguided nationalism, and corporate greed.
This is what happens when a bipartisan pro-war consensus joins with a
complicit corporate media to sell a war to the American people on false
premises. And it's a prime example of why independent, progressive
journalism is so essential.
Common Dreams has challenged the pro-war narrative from the start. We
lifted up voices opposed to the war before it started and have spent
nearly two decades exposing the death and destruction that proved sadly
inevitable.
Here's the point: Without independent media, who will expose the folly
of the next war? Without outlets like Common Dreams, where will you turn
when the cable networks and editorial pages of the major newspapers try
to sell the next batch of lies?
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