Afghans cheer US bombing

This is an interesting piece of coporate spinjob. If you go to the story, you will note that the picture shows "Northern Alliance" people celebrating, which may be a little different context from "Afghanis" as the headline says.

This could be interpreted a number of ways. It says the Taliban has been shelling this village. Is it because the Northern Alliance hides their military resources in civilian areas? This is certainly what the U.S. military says about civilian deaths in Taliban-controlled areas caused by U.S. bombs.

I would urge everyone to take corporate media (especially that which is featured on drudge report, as this was, yet another example of some rightwing asshole blindly reposting corporate media articles as some kind of "proof" or something, haha) with a grain of salt right now. Even better, actively scrutinize what is happening in the media. We are headlong into a gruesome war and American corporate media stands aside from the rest of the world's journalists, cheering on, distorted, co-operating, and attempting to keep us all ignorant and content.

This article was written by two professional journalists now working in Northern Afghanistan, and the publication in which their writing appeared has been referenced numerous times on Indymedia with reference to other articles.

I find it interesting that the "Northern Alliance" is not considered by some to be made up of Afghanis.

Keep on defendin' the Taliban for shelling villages, it's the best you can do!

You aren't responding to what I'm saying. I'm illustrating the various spins that this article could have taken. The spin it has taken is "afghanis happy the u.s. is bombing" when this is clearly not the mainstream afghani opinion, as any truly objective news source will tell you. But, whatever. Keep posting your corporate media garbage here and it will keep being refuted. This is why they don't offer comments on *their* site.

True-Aerial Bombardment sometimes is not accurate.
True-It is epensive to order thousands of troops around the world.

Yet, the vast majority of deaths in Afghanistan (the over 1,000,000 people killed) are by the Soviet Union and it's local Communists in Kabul that asked the KGB to come in in 1979.

Over 2,000,000 people are refugees in Pakistan and The Islamic Republic of Iran not due to a few thousand air-force bombs hitting sand bunkers in mainly isolated areas but due to the Soviets Unions Tanks and Helicopter gunships.

Since then, since this war ended in 1988 the Taliban violently seized a capital. Where once 50% of the women worked, now no women work-at least legally.

No women may leave the house without someone at their side constantly, no women may see a doctor, no woman may show their faces-no matter how beautiful, how ugly, how young, how old.
Women may not teach their children to read nor write unlesss they attend clandestine schools organized by such organizations as RAWA: The Revolutionary Association for the Wome of Afghanistan was formed in 1978 and works for democracy, secular politics and improvements for the people of that country. RAWA's leader Meena was assasinated but new women and new men recognizing the difficulty of what they have set out to do are at work.