Close Your Eyes And See
After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for?
On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days before the bombing of Afghanistan began, there was a small protest march in Washington.
The marchers wore badges saying “Don’t Turn Tragedy into War” and “Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War”, and argued that war was not the inevitable response to the terrorist outrage.
Protest dismissed in the wake of the atrocities committed by al-Qaida. Headline on the New York Times report on the march: “Marchers Oppose Waging War Against Terrorists”.
Sing This All Together / Rolling Stones
Photograph of woman with child: Isaiah Campbell/US MARINE CORPS/ via The Guardian