Spiting Uncle Sam's Face

The July 29th Time Magazine cover of the Afghan beauty with her nose chopped off by the Taliban must rank as one of the most egregious examples of using emotional propaganda to assist a war party maintain its criminal and failed war, ever. What decent American could look at this hideously disfigured woman and not agree that more of these noseless ladies will pop up should we choose to find the answer to the cover story question: "What happens if we leave Afghanistan"?

The truth is that all over the world in dozens if not hundreds of countries and locales, folks are being disfigured, gang raped, tortured and killed in the ongoing saga of man's inhumanity to his fellow citizens in the fight for power and glory. Rather than add to the carnage as we must certainly do in our senseless and criminal takeover of Afghanistan and our endless effort to hold on to it, we must demand our government and military get out of these internal battles. They are bankrupting America. They are used as recruiting tools to get more locals to sign up to fight our needless intervention. But mostly, they main and kill an untold number of innocents; untold because we don't dare put a real number to our atrocities.

Time Magazine should balance their blatant propagandizing for the American war party by portraying the carnage we inflict in a land we don't belong. How about a photo of one of those Afghan wedding parties that some military dude at a video console in Nevada thought was a Taliban gathering, pushed a button, and flattened with a smart bomb?