Tomgram: Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?

You’d have to make a desperate effort not to know that Michael Jackson (until recently excoriated by the media) had died, and you’d have to make a similarly desperate effort to know that we’ve knocked off one wedding party after another these last years in Afghanistan. One of these deaths — Jackson’s — really has little to do with us; the others are, or should be, our responsibility, part of an endless war the American people have either supported or not stopped from continuing. And yet one is a screaming global headline; the others go unnoticed.

A great piece by Tom Englehardt about the slaughter of Afghans from the air, and the complete lack of attention to it.

(via Instapaper)