Arundhati Roy:
‘Brutality Smeared in Peanut Butter’: Why America Must Stop the War Now: “People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed.

Governments molt and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and smother thought, and then as

ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead. On both sides, in Afghanistan as well as America, civilians are now hostage to the actions

of their own governments.

Unknowingly, ordinary people in both countries share a common bond – they have to live with the phenomenon of blind, unpredictable

terror. Each batch of bombs that is dropped on Afghanistan is matched by a corresponding escalation of mass hysteria in America about

anthrax, more hijackings and other terrorist acts.” CommonDreams