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Nima Shirazi

Nima Shirazi is a political commentator from New York City. He blogs at Wide Asleep in America. Follow him on Twitter @WideAsleepNima

Blood stains and charred remains are all that remains inside a Kandahar home where witnesses say a family of Afghans was slain by a U.S. soldier. (AP/Allauddin Khan)

American Morlocks: Monsters of a murderous Afghan policy

Nima Shirazi