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Originally Posted by coolsurfer
I really like this article about US official, Matthew Hoh, who resigned over the war in Afghanistan. He was a former Marine Captain who served in Iraq and the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province. He makes a really good case on why we have no business over there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102603394.html |
Hard to take the guy seriously when he talks like this:
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"I'm not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love," Hoh said. Although he said his time in Zabul was the "second-best job I've ever had," his dominant experience is from the Marines, where many of his closest friends still serve.
"There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed," he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys."
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He doesn't sound very professional. Being happy about tactical success is one thing, but being happy about; "whacking a bunch of guys".... They're probably better off without him in Afghanistan since the main goal there is to win the hearts and minds of the people and not whack as many as possible. The war in Afghanistan is first and foremost a war on poverty, authoritarianism and gender inequality. A kill'em all stratefy won't work there.
We should be there for the main reason that a faction from there that was under the protection of their government attacked our closest ally. My only opposition to the mission is that I didn't think the former US administration cared enough about the war there.