War's Grim Echoes at Home

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 08:33

Norman Solomon
October 8, 2010

Published by Marin Independent Journal.

Yesterday, the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is beginning its 10th year, with 100,000 American troops in that country nearly a decade after the invasion started on Oct. 7, 2001.

When I returned home from a brief visit to Afghanistan a year ago, my life resumed in the pleasant, familiar surroundings of Marin. Yet my head was still in Kabul, with people whose voices are routinely drowned out by the foghorns of war.

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