How sad and tragic that young US foreign service officer, Anne Smedinghoff, just 25 years old, was killed yesterday in Afghanistan. Sad and tragic not because, as the media tells us, she was a brave American hero sacrificing herself for our values, but rather because she no doubt was a victim of our own propagandistic mythology that US occupation of foreign lands is welcomed as a “global force for good.” “She was doing what she loved,” her grieving parents said of their daughter, who was killed while delivering school textbooks to Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province. It is a safe bet … Continue reading ‘Carrying the Future’ in Afghanistan