It is a product of Israel's occupation of Palestine, and now of our occupation of Iraq.
The greatest threat to our national security is our occupation of those countries and the results of our occupation.
The New Yorker, September 8 , 1945P. 15 Comment on General MacArthur's message announcing the details of our occupation of Japan.
By Eleanor Tracy and E. B. White The New Yorker, September 8 , 1945P. 15 Comment on General MacArthur's message announcing the details of our occupation of Japan.
Moreover, Iraq does not exist in a vacuum, and the broader regional consequences of our occupation have been to strengthen the hand of extremists of every stripe.
David Brooks has presented a horrifying view of the future of our occupation in Iraq ("A Burden Too Heavy to Put Down," column, Nov. 4).
One school says that this specific date for the end of our occupation encourages free Iraqis to decide soon on a transition to elections, and induces the U.N. to end its delay and NATO to step up to its out-of-theater responsibility.
That is, in fact, just how their nation came to be the launching pad for the 9/11 attacks, which is the ostensible purpose of our occupation.
We listened to the alarm of the Iraqis at how they were being treated, the innocent people who were dying at the hands of our occupation and the destruction of everything beautiful that was the Iraq they knew.
Even MoveOn and Code Pink weren't supporting us, still believing that Afghan women and the gains they had supposedly made as a result of our occupation would be endangered if we ended the war.
