Starving the Taliban — or the Afghan people?
We want women to go to school and persecutions of the innocent to stop. But we don’t want regular people to freeze and starve, either.
Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Follow her on Twitter @medeabenjamin
We want women to go to school and persecutions of the innocent to stop. But we don’t want regular people to freeze and starve, either.
These lawmakers represent states with a direct interest in pouring billions into modernizing and building new weapons.
The president seems fine with keeping the Middle East awash in US arms, one of many strikes against this $23B UAE deal.