Comments on: Who Will Rein in the War in Afghanistan?

By: Barakzoy

Barakzoy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:49:48 +0000

The War in Afghanistan can not be won if the current approach to governance if Afghanistan continues. History shows that Afghans will fight in the face of injustice or perceived injustice. On the other hand they have responded to heavy handed implementation of justice. It is time for the U.S to change course, and help establish a true democratically elected government that protect its citizen within Afghan cultural confines. Corruption, and nepotism needs to be eradicated and a few bad apples need to be made examples of. Too many people with innocent blood in their hand continue to be in power and part of the current Afghan government.
More infrastructure projects need to be implemented and the Idea of a Martial Plan where the lives of ordinary Afghans can be changed for the better.
As Americans we need to realize that this is a battle for hearts and minds Afghan people and NWFP in Pakistan. A decisive defeat to Al Qaida and fundamentalist Taliban will change the tide of war for ever against terrorism and militant Islam.

By: Barakzoy

Barakzoy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:49:48 +0000

By: Mickey Shell

Mickey Shell — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:45:12 +0000

President Obama is the victim of his own choice for advisors. Even his choice for Secretary of State is basically bellicose: Witness her vote to give Bush unlimited power to wage war (“because I didn't want to LOOK unpatriotic” for god's sake: career over the lives of hundreds of thousands), threatening to “obliterate” the Iranian nation, announcing that the Somali pirates are criminals (plain and simple, we are to understand) despite the West's having decimated Somali coastal populations with their illegal dumping of radioactive and toxic substances, which also served to destroy the livelihoods of Somali fishermen. These people are hard core, and what is needed is good sense and reason. Bombing people with drones only recruits new millions against us and, at least indirectly, the Taliban. We need a regional plan but are alienating everyone in the region.

By: Linda Wenrick

Linda Wenrick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:49:14 +0000

So pleased Senator John Kerry has commenced hearings before his Senate Foregin Relations Committee on our Afghanistan adventure, whether to surge troops and funding.
This Iraq and Afghanistan vet speaks from first-hand experience, now as an honorable 'Winter Soldier' as was Kerry decades ago. Hearing his legendary testimony years ago before same committee — via Democracy Now! — is apt and moving.
Bravissimo for both brave patriots.

By: DAVE KNOX

DAVE KNOX — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:22:22 +0000

Reyes.....not an American. He wouldn't be here if his parents wouldn't have illegally migrated to this country.

This is an insult & A kick in the butt for us all~~~~

And this on top of the stimulus bill too.

This is an insult and a kick in the butt to all of us...
Get mad and pass it on - I don't know how, but maybe some good will come of this travesty.
If the immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who worked from 1944
until 2004. She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there's a 'catch 22'.

It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an
additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month. This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to
the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and
Guaranteed Income Supplement.

Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
Consider sending this to all your American friends, so we can all be ticked off and maybe get the refugees cut back to $1,012 and the
pensioners up to $2,470. (Better yet, don't give the illegal immigrants anything except a one way ticket to their homeland.Then we can enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 or 60 years .

Please forward to every American to expose what our elected politicians have been doing over the past 11 years to the over-taxed American.

SEND THIS TO EVERY AMERICAN TAXPAYER YOU KNOW

By: Dorothy Stein

Dorothy Stein — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:38:09 +0000

If Obama won the Democratic nomination and later the election on the base (rather than basis) of his opposition to the Iraq invasion, let him now fulfill the 'hope' he inspired and end both invasions, not when victorious (whatever that is pronounced to be), and not 'asap', but at once.

By: Douglas Dow

Douglas Dow — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:52:43 +0000

I have to agree the last thing we need now is more wars.

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By: Denise D'Anne

Denise D'Anne — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:54:22 +0000

Have we not learned the lesson of Vietnam? We can not impose democracy at the point of a gun. We cannot invade another country and expect them to welcome us, no more than we would welcome a foreign invader.