Why we should leave Afghanistan

NY Post ^ | November 22, 2009 | MAUREEN CALLAHAN

[Scanian]

At first, Matthew Hoh didn’t think he was doing anything that consequential — maybe he’d attract some attention for the first day or two before becoming, as he puts it, a “footnote.”

But since news broke, a little less than a month ago, of his resignation from the State Department over the US war in Afghanistan — he is the first US official to publicly quit in protest — Hoh has swiftly become an influential voice, both within and outside the government. The timing of his resignation, dated Sept. 10, 2009, was fortuitous, he says: “People want to understand this.”

This week, as President Obama announced that he will soon decide how to proceed in Afghanistan and whether to escalate US troop levels, Matthew Hoh, former Senior Civilian Representative in Zabul Province, has been taking meetings on Capitol Hill and with administration officials. He was recently invited to speak with the Vice-President’s national security adviser, Tony Blinken. “It was a good conversation — they were very open and interested in what I had to say,” Hoh says. “Very inquisitive.”

[Quiller]

Why we should leave Afghanistan?
To let the radiation levels subside.

[Bon mots]

President Fail Strikes Again

Lucky thing Barack Hussein Obummer already got us out of Iraq in March of 2008:

That is precisely what he promised the kool-aid drinkers:


Click on the image above or this video link to hear Barack Obama proclaim that he had a plan to have our troops
out of Iraq by March... of 2008!

"It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the
political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.

That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat
troops home by March of 2008.

Let the Iraqis know... letting the Iraqis know that we will not be
there forever is our last best hope to pressure the Sunnis and Shia
to come to the table and find peace."

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Google bomb:

OBAMA LIED!

[TheRake]

I agree. We should be out of Afghanistan. I think the purpose is no longer there. If Obama announced an exit strategy that was along the lines of what Hoh is proposing, I’d be in favor of it.

[Spok]

The ‘bama is not worthy, morally or intellectually, to command our armed forces, and having the legal authority to do so changes nothing.

[dunblak]

As a vietnam vet, it is apparent to me that this administration is going to leave our military in the lurch once again...anybody who believes we should stay in Afghanistan under those circumstances is historically unaware and politically naive. Thanks for your post.