Posted on 10/06/2009 2:25:01 PM PDT by kristinn
Kabul, Afghanistan - When Medea Benjamin stood up in a Kabul meeting hall this weekend to ask Masooda Jalal if she would prefer more international troops or more development funds, the cofounder of US antiwar group Code Pink was hoping her fellow activist would support her call for US troop withdrawal.
She was disappointed.
Ms. Jalhal, the former Afghan minister of women, bluntly told her both were needed. "It is good for Afghanistan to have more troops – more troops committed with the aim of building peace and against war, terrorism, and security – along with other resources," she answered. "Coming together they will help with better reconstruction."
Rethinking their position
Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the US invasion of Iraq, is one of the more high-profile women's antiwar groups being forced to rethink its position as Afghan women explain theirs: Without international troops, they say, armed groups could return with a vengeance – and that would leave women most vulnerable.
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During their weeklong visit here, in which they met with government officials, politicians, ministers, women activists, and civil society groups, the small team of Code Pink members had hoped to gather evidence to bolster their call for US troop withdrawal within two years, and capitalize on growing anxiety back home about the war.
While the group hasn't dropped its call for a pullout, the visit convinced them that setting a deadline isn't in Afghanistan's interests, say Ms. Benjamin and fellow cofounder Jodie Evans.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
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Posted on 10/06/2009 5:35:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
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When Bush was President, any death of a soldier was inexcusable, completely unacceptable. Now that 0bama is in the office, it’s acceptable to them. It’s not palatable to them... but they’ll keep their traps shut.
LOL
I am breaking ribs over here!
Code pink is running the show. They know 0bama is using woosified ROE.
HA! There is some hope after all!!
Good report. Thanks.
That is not surprising. The Democrats are in power now. Anything goes as long as the Democrats are in power.
Hypocrites!
They're just sucking up to their democrat leader...leading the way for The Left to follow suit and support the war. Because it is the right thing to do, which it was the right thing to do before Dear Leader.
They make me positively sick and I can't see how the rift they caused in this country can ever be repaired
You remember correctly, however it was only a matter of time before Joe would have attacked Adolph, and everyone knew it. Adolph was just a little faster on the draw...
the infowarrior
All they are saying is give war a chance.
We are fighting a war against a bunch of intolerant, backward looking, theocratic supremacists that hate and loathe and despise everything about us. They will attack us and fight us any way they can. If we dont fight them in Afghanistan we will only end up fighting them somewhere else. Personally I’d rather they were fought in Afghanistan than downtown Milwaukee.
No, the pinkos are using the Afghans as cover for their refusal to
go against HerrBama. They are domestic rats plain and simple.
I thought Code Pink were merely useful idiots to bash President Bush, and that as soon as Obama or Clinton got elected (barf), they would change their tune.
How is *that* inconsistent with what is happening? "The Afghan women" are merely a convenient cover story for Code Pinko to change their position to support the war, since protesting against it would make Obama look bad.
Thoughts, comments?
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