581 A report on the expanding US military footprint in Afghanistan from the left-leaning Tom Dispatch journal. "...the Pentagon managed to build, furnish, and supply almost 300 bases, macro to micro, in Iraq alone in the war years. And some of those bases were -- and still are -- the size of small American towns with tens of thousands of troops, private contractors, and others, as well as massive perimeters, multiple bus routes, full-scale PX's, fast-food outlets, movie theaters, and the like. In many ways, Iraq-style war has now become the gargantuan template for the Afghan War build-up that Nick Turse describes below. " http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175135/nick_turse_in_afghanistan_the_pentagon_digs_in 0 2009-11-05T19:29:04Z 0 2009-11-05T19:30:17Z false 30594 false 21 2009-11-05T19:29:04Z Palo Alto, California true 2010-05-05T00:00:00Z false td-on-us-military-infrastructure-expansion-in-afghanistan 1 2009-11-05T19:30:17Z 21