Friday, February 18, 2011

Afghanistan: "Get Out"

Republican and Democratic congressmen, Walter B. Jones and James P. McGovern, join forces on Afghanistan, now the longest war in U.S. history:
Simply put, we believe the human and financial costs of the war are unacceptable and unsustainable. It is bankrupting us. The United States should devise an exit plan to extricate ourselves from Afghanistan, not a plan to stay there four more years and "then we'll see." This doesn't mean that we abandon the Afghan people - rather, we should abandon this war strategy. It is a failure that has not brought stability to Afghanistan and has not enhanced our own security. As the retired career Army officer Andrew J. Bacevich has written, to die for a mystique is the wrong policy.

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