{"id":15002,"date":"2009-10-11T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2009-10-11T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:13:42","slug":"ivaw-october-is-afghanistan-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15002","title":{"rendered":"IVAW: October is Afghanistan Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really don’t know what their point is, but the IVAW has named October Afghanistan Awareness Month. Their stated goal;<\/p>\n

We hope to bury the myth, once-and-for-all, that Afghanistan is “the Good War,” because too many Amercans are still on the fence about it.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to sharpen debate and broaden consensus that the U.S. must get out of Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s funny because even the Executive Director, Jose Vasquez, has said that he wouldn’t have filed conscientious objector paperwork<\/a> if only the Army had decided to send him to Afghanistan instead of Iraq. I guess he’s had a reawakening since then.<\/p>\n

IVAW chapters around the country also will be holding college teach-ins and other educational events to share what they know about the Afghanistan occupation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“…to share what they know”? Based on things like Matthis Chiroux’s six days inside the wire at Bagram? Actual Afghanistan veterans must be few and far between at this point in their organizational history. “What they know” must be limited to things they’ve read in Facebook. In fact, their knowledge base is so narrow these days, Dahr Jamail, journalist to the fakers, is forced to write books with interviews he obtained five or six years ago and reports it as today’s news.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that VFP will be able to find one of their members who served with Rudyard Kipling to round out the analysis, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really don’t know what their point is, but the IVAW has named October Afghanistan Awareness … IVAW: October is Afghanistan Awareness Month<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}