“Enough is Enough” – Brave New Foundation, TrueMajority/USAction Up the Ante in Fight to End Afghanistan War « SpeakEasy

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Posted by Robert Greenwald at 2:58 pm
June 9, 2010
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“Enough is Enough” – Brave New Foundation, TrueMajority/USAction Up the Ante in Fight to End Afghanistan War

This morning, the White House, Members of Congress, and their staffers woke up to a full-page ad in Politico, stating in clear terms that it’s time to end the war, and that we want every combat troop out of Afghanistan by the end of next year.

Politico ad graphic

We’ve been pushing Congress and the President to choose a different course for a while now. Over the past year, we’ve meticulously documented the various reasons to rethink this brutal, costly war, including:

* the deep cost to the U.S. economy
* civilian death and suffering
* the mirage of women’s rights under our allies
* the fact that the war doesn’t make us safer

Instead of a serious effort to consider non-military solutions, what we’ve seen is a continued escalation of the war, a president who has not broken out of the military/think tank counterinsurgency bubble in Washington, and a Congress that is not taking on the administration.

The result of this lack of courage and imagination has been three weeks of awful milestones capped by what one author called NATO’s “worst day ever in Afghanistan.” These milestones include:

* The 1,000th U.S. death in Afghanistan
* The trillionth dollar spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; and
* The Afghanistan war becoming the longest war in history, supplanting Vietnam.

The same day that Afghanistan became the longest war in U.S. history, NATO had its worst day for casualties this year, and we learned U.S. taxpayer dollars are ending up in the hands of the Taliban.

In addition to these awful markers, we also learned last week of the Army’s plans to build a new $100 million Special Operations Forces base in Afghanistan, which won’t even be finished until roughly the time the withdrawals are supposedly set to begin. Clearly, someone’s not getting the memo that our forces are supposed to be on our way home next July.

These stacked-up, tragic milestones led supporters of Brave New Foundation and TrueMajority/USAction to say, “Enough is enough.” In just a few hours, they provided the funds necessary to purchase a full-page Politico ad.

This ad reminds policy-makers of President Obama’s promise to begin a withdrawal no later than July 2011, while also demanding the withdrawal be complete by December 2011. It sends a message that we are tired of watching hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives being wasted on a war that’s not making us safer. It’s a warning to elected officials: “We want this war to end, and we will hold you accountable for ending it.”

The full-page Politico ad is just the latest action we’ve taken with our community of 33,000+ Rethink Afghanistan supporters on Facebook. We’re constantly producing new online videos and organizing actions to help build a movement to end the war. Please join us as we fight to stop this costly, brutal conflict that’s not worth the cost.

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reverendtruth [Moderator] 2 days ago
So why are we there?
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jdlech [Moderator] 2 days ago
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The only purpose I can think of to be there is to make good on all our promises made back in the 80s when we were helping them fight the Soviets. Well, we don't need combat operations to build schools, hospitals, orphanages, roads, etc..

I'm no friend of the Taliban, but the way we've conducted war operations out there would make eternal enemies of any population.
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reverendtruth [Moderator] 2 days ago
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So we murdered and maimed millions of people, trashed our own military might, spent a trillion dollars and nobody can say why we did it?

That doesn't pass the smell test. It looks like fraud.
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MalcontentX [Moderator] 1 day ago
So, is Hollywood planning a "Joe Wilson's War, Pt. 2"?
Maybe Tom Hanks could don blackface, he has a penchant for doing war films and he'd be better than that non-funny
clueless dork who plays Obama on Saturday Night Live.
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