Looking for a Way to Cut the Budget; How about Afghanistan? See Where Key Leaders Stand on the Afghanistan War
The Afghanistan Study Group developed an interactive infographic identifying where national opinion leaders – politicians, media and academics – stand on President Obama’s plan to remove troops from Afghanistan.
Featuring pundits, media, elected leaders, and academics, the infographic highlights each opinionator’s stance on troop drawdown, as well as a quote articulating his/her point of view. Views are arranged in concentric ellipses, beginning in the center of the circle with those who support escalating the number of troops in Afghanistan and ending with those who support total withdrawal. Those agreeing with President Obama’s plan are placed in the middle.
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7 Responses to Looking for a Way to Cut the Budget; How about Afghanistan? See Where Key Leaders Stand on the Afghanistan War
The US alone is spending $120 billion a year in the war in Afghanistan, and there have been some 545,000 US-cum-NATO-ISAF soldiers, contractors, bodyguards, and the (97%) Afghan ethnic minority based army and police forces put together to fight supposedly 35,000 “Taliban”, many of whom are actually common folks and derive their support from the majority. President Obama raised the US troop level some 300% while in office. All of this for nearly ten years has brought a “stalemate”. Those who want more war simply have not understood the inner workings of the Afghan society, nor the history of the country especially over the past thirty years. But, then they are also ignoring the demand of the majority of the American people and the Afghan people for ending the war and occupation. More war is not the way to peace and political stability in Afghanistan nor in the region. We have a comprehensive peace plan, part of which has been adopted by Kabul backed, by the US and UN, which provides a framework for the US to withdraw all its military honorably, but not abandon Afghanistan. Look at our website http://www.Afghanprm.org. Prof. Siddieq Noorzoy, Chairman, IPRM. You can write us at :Info@afghanprm.org.
I am fearful of how the arrogance of power will shake out. It has run roughshod over aspirations of peoples throughout the world and for the last three decade in America. As the imperiality turns up the heat and usurps more power and wealth for itself, the frogs may jump out of the boiling pot and follow leaders with perverse motives as they did in the ’30s. A recollection of the destruction that took place in WW2 is enough to give one chills. The future looks so dim. Our beautiful children! What have we done? Kurt Vonnegut’s poem “Requiem” ends with the line “People did not like it here.” referring to the Earth.
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