Get Afghanistan Right Week Uncovers Significant Dissent on Planned Escalation clipped by: brightlight4
Get Afghanistan Right Week Uncovers Significant Dissent on Planned Escalation
National leaders, including U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) have also questioned the wisdom of current and proposed U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
In State Secretary-designate Hillary Clintons confirmation hearing, Kerry said "I am deeply concerned that, at least thus far, our policy in Afghanistan has kind of been on automatic. And I made a promise to myself a long time ago that I would not see all of our conflicts, ground operations in the context of Vietnam...But I have to tell you, in the several visits I have now made, escape it as I might, the parallels just really keep leaping out in so many different ways....And I think unless we rethink this very, very carefully, we could raise the stakes, invest Americas reputation in a greater way as well as our treasure and wind up pursuing a policy that is, frankly, unpursuable, unachievable."
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We oppose military escalation in Afghanistan and support non-military solutions to the conflict. clipped by: brightlight4
We oppose military escalation in Afghanistan
and support non-military solutions to the conflict.
The front-page story in the Washington Post Tuesday reports the intention Barack Obama to commit a stunningly irrational blunder: to escalate dramatically the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan even though he has no clear proposal from the Pentagon on what is to be accomplished with the new ?surge? in troops.
If I told you our country was fighting an insurgency in a small, Asian, war-torn nation that has a feeble government riddled with corruption and a dangerous border serving as a safe haven for terrorists, would you say we were fighting in Afghanistan or Vietnam?
And if I said we were fighting something of an invisible enemy under the guise of preserving U.S. security,
based on nothing more than hubris and a false confidence in our military superiority, which war would you say this was?
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