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The impact of coalition operations in Afghanistan is often bogged down in statistics and political manoeuvring. But these photos of a devastated village in the Arghandad River Valley show the horror of war in stark reality. Tarok Kolache, a small settlement in Kandahar, has been completely erased from the map after an offensive by the U.S. army. Before and aftermath: The picture on the left shows the village of Tarok Kolache in the Arghandab River Valley. The picture on the right is the same location following allied air strikes, which completely obliterated the village. The war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with bringing democracy, freedom, and a better way of life to the people of Afghanistan, as the corporate media endlessly tells Americans. The war in Afghanistan is about oil pipelines, military industrial banking war profits, and the domination of the Middle East. The people of Afghanistan will never willingly give their country over to America. They will fight the invaders just as any country would. America is doing what it has always done throughout its genocidal 200 year history; the extermination of a population while stealing their resources. America brings to the world a democracy of looting, depleted uranium bombs, torture, and mass death.