Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) recently proposed a one-sentence bill calling for the US to state a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan:
“Not later than December 31, 2009, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report outlining the United States exit strategy for United States military forces in Afghanistan participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.”
He plans to attach that sentence to the 2010 military authorization bill.
Please call your Congressional Representative and express your support for this bill, which is called House Resolution 2404 (H.R. 2404).
For further information, please read this article by defense analyst Robert Naiman:
Congress Should Require an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan
June 24, 2009 at 7:07 am |
The small pop-ups that indicate further reading display such small print that I cannot decipher what they are trying to say. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILING TO HELP AFGHANI PEOPLE? IN MY VIEW, FAILING TO KILL ALL TALIBAN IS A VERY DANGEROUS POINT OF VIEW/ACTION. To add to these questions, AFghanistan has been a land of “dopers” and opium sources since before Jesus was born! How is that helpful to this complicated world? Why save that?
DO YOU SEE MY VARIED ARGUMENTS? tHANKS! ruth mckenney springfield mo. 65804
June 24, 2009 at 9:08 am |
The small pop-ups are just hints of what is behind the links. To read the text, click on the links.
As you say, it’s a complicated world. This includes the situation in Afghanistan.
The people of Afghanistan are called Afghans, not “Afghanis”. The Afghani is their name for the nation’s currency.
Afghanistan was not a land of “dopers”. They produced opium poppies mainly for export. The dopers were (and still are) scattered around the world.
When the Taliban were in power after kicking the Soviets out in the 1980s, they stopped and banned opium production because they considered it sinful. Now that they are out of power, they are (hypocritically) using opium production to help fund their resurgence.
The U.S. would have a better impact on Afghanistan if instead of waging war, we waged peace, i.e., sent in the Corps of Engineers to build schools and wells, while using U.N. peacekeeping forces to keep peace.
Read the book “Three Cups of Tea”, about Greg Mortenson, and you’ll understand what I mean.