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<h1>Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground</h1>
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<strong>Monday, October 17, Watertown: </strong> First Parish, 35 Church St., 7pm</div>
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<strong>Tuesday, October 18, Jamaica Plain</strong>: First Church, 6 Eliot St., 7pm</div>
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<strong>Jonathan Steele</strong> has covered Afghanistan for the <em>Guardian </em>(London) for more than thirty years, and was part of the <em>Guardian </em>team which published the Wikileaks Afghanistan cables. His latest book, <em>Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground</em>, was published by Counterpoint this month. He will sign copies at his talks.</div>
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<div>October 2011 marks ten years of U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan. Steele was one of the few Western analysts who predicted that a US invasion of Afghanistan would be a disaster. Although President Obama has announced withdrawal of some troops, the Administration’s plan really envisions a long-term military occupation. So Afghanistan should remain high on everyone's agenda as the 2012 election campaign approaches.</div>
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<img alt="Ghosts of Afghanistan" width="240" height="272" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/100611gh.jpg">Steele will explain the strategic partnership agreement that the Obama administration wants to sign with Karzai's government and argue that it is a disaster for Afghanistan and the US. Instead he calls for peace talks and an agreement that will end the country's thirty-five years of civil war. </div>
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<em>The New Yorker</em>'s Seymour Hersh strongly endorses <em>Ghosts of Afghanistan</em> as an “original look at the West's obsession with Afghanistan,” in which “Steele...puts to rest the notion that America had no choice but to go to war after Osama bin Laden's orchestration of the 9/11 attacks."</div>
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<div>Recent articles:</div>
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<div>”Osama bin Laden: the Legacy for Afghanistan” <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-afghanistan">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-afghanistan</a>
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<div>”The Taliban’s Wishlist” (about talks)<a href="http://%20http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/20/the-talibans-wishlist"> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/20/the-talibans-wishlist</a>
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<div>Watertown talk sponsored by <a href="http://masspeaceaction.org">Massachusetts Peace Action</a>, <a href="http://watertowncitizens.org/">Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety</a>, and <a href="http://newtondialogues.org">Newton Dialogues on Peace and War</a>. Jamaica Plain talk sponsored by Jamaica Plain Forum, Massachusetts Peace Action and UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force.</div>
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