What’s Really Behind Conservative Pundit George Will’s Call for Total Withdrawal From Afghanistan?
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By Byard Duncan, AlterNet. On Sept. 1, conservative columnist George Will published a seemingly out-of-nowhere, eye-popping op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Time to Get out of Afghanistan.” The piece, which called for “a comprehensively revised policy” involving drastic troop reductions, prompted a battery of rebuttals from right-wing pundits.
But although Will was accused of everything from bald cowardice to faulty arithmetic, his so-called ‘defection’ was miles from a random maneuver. Rather, it was a calculated provocation — one sensitive to a political climate in which our prickly discourse on Afghanistan has immense transformative power.
Will, above all else, understood the landscape onto which he was discharging his ideas. About 2 1/2 months before he published his op-ed, members of the House voted down an amendment proposed by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., that called on the Pentagon to draft an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
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