Afghanistan

A US soldier has gone on a drunken rampage in Afghanistan, killing 16, nearly all women and children. This is on the heels of Quran burning and also urinating on dead Taliban fighters. I've actually read right wingers aggressively defending the burning and urinating. Republican Presidential candidates are attacking Obama for daring to apologize.

But this is happening despite that the American people overwhelmingly want the US military to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible. Why are we inflicting so much misery when the American people oppose?

Because imperialism is an essential feature of our economic arrangement, as explained by t at Pink Scare.