[Peace-discuss] By How Many Days Can We Shorten This War?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Our goal shouldn't be to get the Senate to talk about an exit strategy but to
honor the wishes of the people in the countries we are invading and occupying,
from Palestine to Pakistan.  Those wishes seem overwhelmingly that we leave.

After being given control of Congress in 2006 to end the war, the Democrats lied
about their continuing support for the war by saying that they were insisting on 
a "time line."  Obama did the same in 2008.  Talk of "exit strategy" is more of 
the same.

The late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote long ago of Vietnam,
"People ask how we get out ... The same way we got in -- by using ships and planes."


Robert Naiman wrote:
> One thing is clear from the Afghan presidential campaign: the majority of
> Afghans want the war to end. Recent polls show that the majority of Americans
> agree. But our leaders in Washington are not yet convinced. The Senate, in
> particular, refuses to talk about an exit strategy from Afghanistan.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/by-how-many-days-can-we-s_b_264034.html
> 
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/20/103859/232