Obama Isn’t Listening to Voices of Reason on Afghanistan
OPS_admin | Dec 01, 2009 | Comments 0
John Nichols, The Nation
“I know that Obama’s election has brought great hopes to peace-loving people in the United States. But for Afghans, Obama’s military buildup will only bring more suffering and death to innocent civilians…”
– Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya
The only humane and proper response to the mess in Afghanistan is the rapid withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from that country.
The makers of the brilliant documentary Rethink Afghanistan” have after interviewing savvy diplomats, honest intelligence operatives and frustrated military men and women — as well as human rights activists, feminists and sincere reformers in Afghanistan — concluded that:
Expanding the war in Afghanistan will make Americans less safe, not more so. Less than 100 members of Al Qaeda remain in Afghanistan. The Karzai government we once supported is controlled by warlords and is riddled with corruption. Pakistan's stability will be gravely imperiled by an expansion of the war. Hundreds if not thousands of troops will be killed, along with countless civilians.
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