Posts Tagged ‘protests against Afghan war’

Matthew Hoh: A Great American Patriot

October 29, 2009

Malou Innocent, cato-at-liberty.com, Oct 28, 2009

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Former Marine captain Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. His letter of resignation echoes some arguments I have made earlier this year, namely, that what we are witnessing is a local and regional ethnic Pashtun population fighting against what they perceive to be a foreign occupation of their region; that our current strategy does not answer why and to what end we are pursuing  this war; and that Afghanistan holds little intrinsic strategic value to the security of the United States.

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