{"id":36912,"date":"2021-02-21T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36912"},"modified":"2021-02-21T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T17:44:55","slug":"a-global-demand-to-35-governments-get-your-troops-out-of-afghanistan-a-thank-you-to-6-that-already-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/a-global-demand-to-35-governments-get-your-troops-out-of-afghanistan-a-thank-you-to-6-that-already-have\/","title":{"rendered":"A Global Demand to 35 Governments: Get Your Troops Out of Afghanistan \/ A Thank You to 6 That Already Have"},"content":{"rendered":"

The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and US all still have troops in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/a> and need to remove them.<\/p>\n

These troops range in number from Slovenia’s 6 to the United States’ 2,500. Most countries have fewer that 100. Apart from the United States, only Germany has over 1,000. Only five other countries have more than 300.<\/p>\n

Governments that used to have troops in this war but have removed them include New Zealand, France, Jordan, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Ireland.<\/p>\n

We plan to deliver a big THANK-YOU<\/strong> to every government that removes all of its troops from Afghanistan, along with the names and comments of every signer of this petition<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We plan to deliver a demand<\/strong> to remove all troops to every government that has not done so, along with the names and comments of every signer of this petition<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government is the ring-leader, and the bulk of its killing is done from the air, but – given the deficiency in democracy in the US government, which is now on its third president who promised to end the war but hasn’t – it is critical that other governments withdraw their troops. Those troops, present in token numbers, are there to legitimize behavior that could otherwise be recognized as lawless and outrageous. A government lacking the courage to reject US pressure has no business sending any<\/em> number of its residents to kill or risk dying in a US\/NATO war.<\/p>\n

This petition<\/strong><\/a> will be signed by people in each nation involved in the war, including the nation of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Please sign the petition<\/a>, add comments if you have anything to add, and share with others. <\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to be part of delivering the petition to a particular government, contact World BEYOND War<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the petition:<\/p>\n

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To<\/b>: Governments with Troops Occupying Afghanistan
From<\/b>: YOU<\/i><\/p>\n

We, the people of the world, demand that every government with troops still in Afghanistan remove them.<\/em><\/p>\n

We thank and applaud those governments that have done so.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please spread the word.<\/p>\n

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org<\/a> and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org<\/a>. Swanson\u2019s books include<\/i> War Is A Lie and<\/i> When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org<\/a> and WarIsACrime.org<\/a>. He hosts Talk Nation Radio<\/a>. This originally appeared at WorldBeyondWar.org<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and US all still have troops in Afghanistan and need to remove them. These troops range in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36912"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36914,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36912\/revisions\/36914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36912"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}