Yesterday, Senator Russ Feingold, Representative Jim McGovern, and Representative Walter Jones announced the introduction of legislation that - if it attracts enough support - could end the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan, and bring the troops home.
The key idea of the bill is straightforward. By January 1 - or within 3 months of the enactment of the bill, if that is earlier - the President is required to submit to Congress a plan for the redeployment of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, with a timetable for doing so. After submitting the plan, the President has to update Congress every 90 days on how the implementation of the plan is going. The bill allows Members of Congress to sign their names in favor of the all-important policy of having a timetable for military withdrawal, without everyone having to agree on a specific proposal for what the end date should be. Instead, it instructs President Obama to tell us what he thinks the plan should be. The importance of establishing a timetable for military withdrawal cannot be overstated. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/feingold-mcgovern-jones-i_b_538635.html http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/15-2 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/15/9197/77565 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/549 http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/41152 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] 6 minute video: highlights of the House Afghanistan debate http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/video/housedebate _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
