Kanema: Onani Webinar yomwe Tangochita Pomaliza Nkhondo ku Afghanistan

By World BEYOND War, November 19, 2020

Nkhondo yaku US ku Afghanistan ili mchaka cha 19. Zokwanira!

Ann Wright ndiye woyang'anira. Panelists ndi Kathy Kelly, Matthew Hoh, Rory Fanning, Danny Sjursen, ndi Arash Azizzada.

Ann Wright ndi Colonel wa Army wopuma pantchito yemwe adakhala kazembe waku US kwa zaka 16 m'maofesi a kazembe aku US ku Grenada, Nicaragua, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia ndi Mongolia. Anali mgulu lomwe linatsegulanso ofesi ya kazembe wa US ku Kabul mu Disembala 2001 ndikukhalabe miyezi isanu. Pa Marichi 13, 2003, Wright adatumiza kalata yosiya ntchito kwa Secretary of State panthawiyo a Colin Powell. Kuyambira tsiku lomwelo, wagwira ntchito yamtendere, kulemba ndi kuyankhula padziko lonse lapansi ndipo wabwerera katatu ku Afghanistan. Wright ndi wolemba nawo wonyenga: Voices of Conscience.

Kathy Kelly ndi amene anayambitsa Voices in the Wilderness, wogwirizira Voices for Creative Nonviolence, komanso membala wa World BEYOND War's Advisory Board. Paulendo uliwonse wa 20 wopita ku Afghanistan, Kathy, monga mlendo woitanidwa, wakhala pamodzi ndi anthu wamba a Afghanistan m'dera la ogwira ntchito ku Kabul.

A Matthew Hoh ali ndi zaka pafupifupi 12 zokumana ndi nkhondo zaku United States zakunja ndi Marine Corps, department of Defense, ndi State department. Wakhala Senior Fellow ndi Center For International Policy kuyambira 2010. Mu 2009, Hoh adasiya ntchito posonyeza kukwiya ku Afghanistan ndi State department pazakuwonjezereka kwa nkhondo ku US. Atalephera kutumizidwa, adagwira ntchito pamalamulo ankhondo aku Afghanistan ndi Iraq ndi zochitika ku Pentagon ndi State department kuyambira 2002-8. Hoh ndi membala wa Board of Directors ku Institute for Public Accuracy, Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee Yofufuza Kuzunzidwa, Veterans For Peace, ndi World BEYOND War.

Rory Fanning adadutsa magawo awiri kupita ku Afghanistan ndi gulu lachiwiri la Army Ranger Battalion, ndipo adakhala m'modzi mwa asitikali ankhondo aku US kuti akane nkhondo yaku Iraq ndi Global War on Terror. Mu 2-2008 adadutsa United States ku Pat Tillman maziko. Rory ndi mlembi wa Worth Fighting For: An Ranger's Journey Out of the Military and Across America. Mu 2009 adapatsidwa chiphaso kuchokera ku Chicago Teachers Union kuti alankhule ndi ophunzira a CPS zakumenya nkhondo kosatha ku United States ndikudzaza zina mwa zomwe olemba usilikali samanyalanyaza.

A Danny Sjursen ndiwopuma pantchito yankhondo yaku US, opereka mkonzi ku Antiwar.com, mkulu ku Center for International Policy, komanso director of the Eisenhower Media Network. Adamenya nawo nkhondo ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan ndipo pambuyo pake adaphunzitsa mbiri ku West Point. Iye ndiye mlembi wazokumbukira ndikuwunika mozama Nkhondo yaku Iraq, Ghostriders aku Baghdad: Asitikali, Asitikali, ndi Nthano ya Surge ndi Patriotic Dissent: America mu Age of Endless War. Pamodzi ndi vet mnzake Chris "Henri" Henriksen, amalowa nawo podcast Fortress pa Phiri.

Arash Azizzada ndiwopanga makanema, mtolankhani, komanso wokonza madera omwe akukhala ku Washington, DC Mwana wamwamuna wa othawa kwawo aku Afghanistan omwe adathawa Afghanistan atagonjetsedwa ndi Soviet, Azizzada amatenga nawo mbali kwambiri pakukonzekera ndikulimbikitsa anthu aku Afghanistan-America, ogwirizana Afghan Diaspora for Equity and Progress (ADEP) mu 2016. ADEP, bungwe loyamba lamtunduwu kutuluka mgulu la anthu aku Afghanistan aku America, cholinga chake ndikudziwitsa anthu za kusowa chilungamo pakati pa anthu ndikuphunzitsa komanso kupatsa mphamvu anthu osintha zinthu kuti athane ndi mavuto osiyanasiyana monga kusankhana mitundu. kupeza mwayi wovota. Kuyambira chaka chatha, Arash adalimbikitsa kulimbikitsa nkhondo ku Afghanistan ndikukweza mawu azimayi ndi ena omwe adasankhidwa ku Afghanistan pomwe zokambirana zamtendere komanso zoyanjanitsika zikupitilira.

Chochitikachi chimathandizidwa ndi World BEYOND War, RootsAction.org, NYC Veterans For Peace, ndi Middle East Crisis Response.