Tuesday
Mar132012
Eugene Robinson - End the Afghan mission now
March 13, 2012 It was clear before Sunday’s horrific massacre of civilians that it’s past time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to end. Now the only question should be how quickly we can get our troops onto transport planes to fly them home.
What are we accomplishing, aside from enraging the Afghan population we’re allegedly trying to protect? How are we supposed to convince them that a civilian massacre carried out by a U.S. soldier is somehow preferable to a civilian massacre carried out by theTaliban? How does it make any of us safer to have the United States military known forburning Korans and killing innocent Muslim children in their beds?
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