Posted on 10/09/2009 8:00:17 AM PDT by Starman417
This is indeed the dawning of the Age of Barack Hussein Obama....mmm...mmm....mm:
The anti-war group Code Pink, which rose to prominence with high-profile protests against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past seven years, is softening its stance against the war in Afghanistan over concerns that a troop withdrawal could harm women's rights in the country."We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline," Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Christian Science Monitor. "That's where we have opened ourselves ... to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, 'If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We'd go into civil war.' A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that."
The apparent shift in policy comes in the wake of a week-long trip to Afghanistan by Code Pink members, where activists were surprised to find a lot of support among women's rights activists for maintaining the US and NATO presence in the country.
They are just now awakening to this fact? Where were their brains at for the previous 8 years? Angelina Jolie "got it", in regards to safeguarding Iraq on humanitarian grounds. Why couldn't they?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
The answer is simple. They are communists. They support everything that other communists do. If you’re not a communist, they will oppose everything you do.
More simple than that. Most on the left are not principled oppoenents of war. They become rabidly pro-war when of their own is commander-in-chief.
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