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"U.S. authorities will not press for extending the operation beyond its scheduled expiration. [This] represents a substantial scaling back of an operation that, when announced late last year, was hailed by the Bush administration as an important new front in the war on terrorism. The focus on helping Philippine forces crush the ragtag militant Muslim group Abu Sayyaf has proven more of a sideshow to the worldwide counterterrorism campaign. It has been marked by a botched effort to rescue two American missionaries held hostage by Abu Sayyaf and the failure to eliminate the rebels."
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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