Growing List of Conservatives including Coulter and Norquist Oppose War in Afghanistan
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Last week, unfortunately, House Speaker John Boehner asked President Obama to “explain” how withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July would not “undermine the tenuous progress we’ve made thus far.” Speaker Boehner also asserted that “[a]ny draw-down of U.S. troops must be based on the conditions on the ground, not on political calculations.”
The war in Afghanistan is a threat to conservative values. The Afghanistan war is fiscally irresponsible, wasteful of taxpayer dollars, and American lives are being lost in pursuit of a strategy that is not in our national interest. Even though the war in Afghanistan is a disaster for conservative values, the Republican leadership continues to support endless military involvement in Afghanistan.
It just so happened that on the same day that Speaker Boehner made his comments, the Afghanistan Study Group sponsored a conference featuring key note speaker Ann Coulter along with highly regarded conservative, Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform. Contrary to Speaker Boehner’s statement, Ms. Coulter said that the war in Afghanistan is going “to bleed us and bleed us with no purpose”.
To view Ann Coulter’s two minute key argument, click here: Coulter Key Argument
To view her entire speech, click here: Coulter Entire Speech
To view a clip of Grover Norquist’s key argument click here: Norquist Key Argument
To view Grover Norquist’s entire speech click here: Norquist Entire Speech
Become a part of the conversation at afghanistanstudygroup.org.
We also had two additional panels, which featured such foreign policy luminaries as Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas R. Pickering, Dimitri K. Simes, President of the Center for The National Interest, and author Peter Bergen.
To view panel with Elise Labott, The Hon. Thomas Pickering, Paul Pillar, James Clad, Richard Vague, and Joshua Foust click below:
Panel 1: “The Afghanistan War: Reviewing America’s Strategic and Economic Position”
To view panel with Susan Glasser, James Dobbins, Christine Fair, Brian Katulis, Peter Bergen, and Matthew Hoh click below:
Panel 2: “Next Steps in Afghanistan: What are the Options?”
To view presentation by Dimitri Simes, click here
Please note Mr. Simes’ presentation begins at 0:00:43 and ends at 0:29:32
