Panthawi ya 2003 Shock and Awe kuphulika kwa mabomba ku Iraq, ndipo pambuyo pake, otsutsa nkhondo omwe ali ndi Voices for Creative Nonviolence anali kulimbikitsa anthu kuzungulira dzikolo kupita kutsogolo kwa zipatala ndi zizindikiro ndi zikwangwani zonena kuti, "Kuphulitsa malowa kungakhale mlandu wankhondo. !"
Kuzungulira 2 am lachiwelu m'mawa, Oct. 3, 2015, asilikali a US / NATO anachita ndege yomwe inagunda chipatala cha Doctors Without Borders ku Kunduz, Afghanistan. Ogwira ntchito zachipatala nthawi yomweyo adayimba foni ku likulu la NATO kuti afotokoze za kunyanyala kwawoko, komabe ziwonetsero zidapitilira kwa pafupifupi ola limodzi. Osachepera asanu ndi anayi ogwira ntchito zachipatala adaphedwa ndi odwala asanu ndi awiri kuphatikiza ana atatu. Anthu enanso 35 avulala.
Asilikali a Taliban alibe mphamvu zamlengalenga, ndipo zombo zankhondo za Afghan Air Force zili pansi pa US, kotero zikuwonekeratu kuti US yachita mlandu wankhondo. Izi zidachitika patatsala masiku 14 kuti dziko la United States liukire Afghanistan pa Okutobala 7, 2001, lomwe linali "upandu waukulu wankhondo" woukira dziko lomwe silinawopsezedwe ndinkhondo. US ikadali ndi mlandu chifukwa cha chisokonezo chonse chomwe chatsatira kuwukira kwake. Tsopano, pafupifupi zaka 6 pambuyo pa "kuchita opaleshoni" kwa Obama mu 2009, pali asilikali pafupifupi 10,000 aku US ku Afghanistan, ndi Pentagon ikukamba za kufunika kosunga asilikaliwo kumeneko.
Tikufuna kutsimikizira ufulu wa anthu aku Afghan pa chithandizo chamankhwala ndi chitetezo, ndipo tikufuna kuti nkhanzazo zithe. Ndi anthu aku Afghan okha omwe angathe kupanga gulu lawo kuti ligwirizane ndi zomwe akufuna. Ngati US ili ndi gawo lililonse loti lichite, ndikungopereka ndalama zomanganso ntchito zotsogozedwa ndi Afghanistan zomwe zitha kukweza mabungwe aboma.
VCNV ikulimbikitsa omenyera ufulu kuti asonkhane kutsogolo kwa zipatala kuzungulira US ndi kupitirira apo, pansi pa uthenga wakuti, "Kuponya Mabomba Apa Kungakhale Upandu Wankhondo!" ndi "Zimodzimodzinso ku Afghanistan." Tikhala tikuchita zionetsero ku Chicago Lachiwiri, October 6, pa 3 PM kutsogolo kwa Stroger Hospital (ku Ogden ndi Damen). Taphatikizidwa ndi anzathu: Chicago World Can't Wait, Chicago Area Peace Action, ndi Gay Liberation Network.
