Yesterday, Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin broke a Washington taboo. He called for a "timetable" for withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan. "I think it is time we start discussing a flexible timetable so that people around the world can see when we are going to bring our troops out," said Feingold. "Showing the people there and here that we have a sense about when it is time to leave is one of the best things we can do," he added. He also said our military presence "is increasing the extremism and increasing the resentment toward the United States...The idea of an open-ended commitment with no vision of when it will end is a problem. I want a flexible timetable and a public vision of what we intend."
Now we need to help Senator Feingold bring other Senators with him. To do that, we need a vehicle... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/feingold-breaking-washing_b_268381.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/772143/-Feingold,-Breaking-Beltway-Taboo,-Urges-Afghan-Withdrawal-Timetable http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/306 -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Demand an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
