[Peace-discuss] Feingold, Breaking Beltway Taboo [sic]

[C. G. Estabrook]

Some taboo.  The "timetable" dodge has been the favorite Democratic cover story 
since they were given control of the Congress in 2006 specifically to end Bush's 
war.

As was pointed out on several sides at the time, the Constitutional way to do 
that was to cut off the money (and that did not require a veto-proof majority, 
as the Democrats falsely claimed).

But the Democrats supported the US policy in the Middle East and wished only to 
use the dismay with the war for their own electoral purposes.  AS we now see, in 
office they continued Bush's Iraq policy and in AfPak waged a more brutal and 
aggressive war than his administration did.

We all know that both parties are substantially to the right of the US populace 
on many issues -- that's their job -- and on questions of war they've moved even 
further: Feingold's "taboo-breaking" position on the very fringe of the 
Democratic party is about the same as the Nixon-Kissinger position on their war 
40 years ago.  --CGE


Robert Naiman wrote:
> Yesterday, Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin broke a Washington
> taboo. He called for a "timetable" for withdrawal of U.S. military
> forces from Afghanistan. "I think it is time we start discussing a
> flexible timetable so that people around the world can see when we are
> going to bring our troops out," said Feingold. "Showing the people
> there and here that we have a sense about when it is time to leave is
> one of the best things we can do," he added. He also said our military
> presence "is increasing the extremism and increasing the resentment
> toward the United States...The idea of an open-ended commitment with
> no vision of when it will end is a problem. I want a flexible
> timetable and a public vision of what we intend."
> 
> Now we need to help Senator Feingold bring other Senators with him. To
> do that, we need a vehicle...
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/feingold-breaking-washing_b_268381.html
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/772143/-Feingold,-Breaking-Beltway-Taboo,-Urges-Afghan-Withdrawal-Timetable
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/306
> 
> --
> Robert Naiman
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> 
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