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

[Robert Naiman]

I totally agree. Our goal should be to GTFO.

But, I think it's ok to have intermediate goals, as people do in other
human endeavors.



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 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
>



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