Jules Tindungan spoke at a recent forum titled "Inaugurating Peace: Obama and the War in Afghanistan". He was sent to Afghanistan on what he believed was a humanitarian mission but found that the reconstruction work that took place was largely to meet the needs of the occupying armies.
Links:
[1] http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye
[2] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/artist/jules_tindungan
[3] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/title/veteran_of_afghan_war
[4] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/album/redeye_vancouver_cooperative_radio
[5] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/genre/speech
[6] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/year/2009
[7] http://rabble.ca/user
[8] http://rabble.ca/user/register