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

[C. G. Estabrook]

But it's not an intermediate goal: it's going the other way.

Talking of an "exit strategy" is a diversion from GTFO, just as talking of "time
lines" was the Democrats' cover to continue funding Bush's war.

Both are non-innocent diversions from cutting off the money, as the constitution
provides -- and was done in e.g. Vietnam and the Contra war.


Robert Naiman wrote:
> I totally agree. Our goal should be to GTFO.
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> But, I think it's ok to have intermediate goals, as people do in other human
> endeavors.
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> 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."
>> 
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>> 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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