I know you don't want to hear this, but none of Afghanistan's neighbors want the US to leave. Iran, Russia, and China must not have gotten the news that the war in Afghanistan is really about controlling energy supplies. Actually, US forces in Afghanistan are being supplied through Russia, which for some reason seems to want to encourage US efforts to undermine Russia's position as an energy provider. Ah, the mysterious Russian soul!
--- On Sat, 3/28/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] How Obama took over the peace movement
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 9:33 PM
> "Some of us saw this unfolding years
> ago. Others are probably shocked watching
> their peace candidate escalating a war and sounding so much
> like the previous
> administration in his rationale for doing so."
>
> How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement
> John Stauber, March 27, 2009
>
> John Podesta's liberal think tank the Center for American
> Progress strongly
> supports Barack Obama's escalation of the US wars in
> Afghanistan and Pakistan.
> This is best evidenced by "Sustainable Security in
> Afghanistan," a CAP report by
> Lawrence J. Korb. Podesta served as the head of Obama's
> transition team, and
> CAP's support for Obama's wars is the latest step in a
> successful co-option of
> the US peace movement by Obama's political aides and the
> Democratic Party.
>
> CAP and the five million member liberal lobby group MoveOn
> were behind Americans
> Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI), a coalition that spent
> tens of millions of
> dollars using Iraq as a political bludgeon against
> Republican politicians, while
> refusing to pressure the Democratic Congress to actually
> cut off funding for the
> war. AAEI was operated by two of Barack Obama's top
> political aids, Steve
> Hildebrand and Paul Tewes, and by Brad Woodhouse of
> Americans United for Change
> and USAction. Today Woodhouse is Obama's Director of
> Communications and Research
> for the Democratic National Committee. He controls the
> massive email list called
> Obama for America composed of the many millions of people
> who gave money and
> love to the Democratic peace candidate and might be
> wondering what the heck he
> is up to in Afghanistan and Pakistan. MoveOn built its list
> by organizing vigils
> and ads for peace and by then supporting Obama for
> president; today it operates
> as a full-time cheerleader supporting Obama's policy
> agenda. Some of us saw this
> unfolding years ago. Others are probably shocked watching
> their peace candidate
> escalating a war and sounding so much like the previous
> administration in his
> rationale for doing so.
>
> http://www.prwatch.org/node/8297
>
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