Compelling Case For Leaving Afghanistan

Dylan Ratigan talks to Jeremy Scahill, Jeffrey Addicott and Kendall Coffey about the corruption in the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan and the neighborhood protection and extortion racket that our government is funding both sides. Then Rachel Maddow discusses with Seymour Hersh the breaking news that President Barack Obama is not satisfied with the plans he received regarding Afghanistan from his advisers because he wants to include withdrawal in those plans. Finally followed by Rachel Maddow discussing the book LESSONS IN DISASTER (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/06/lessons_in_disaster) with author Gordon Goldstein comparing the parallels between JFK/LBJ vs Obama and how they handled Viet Nam vs Afghanistan.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Dylan Ratigan
• Jeremy Scahill
• Jeffrey Addicott
• Kendall Coffey
• Hamid Karzai
• Barack Obama
• Rachel Maddow
• Lessons In Disaster
• Seymour Hersh
• Gordon Goldstein
• Afghanistan
• extortion
• protection racket

[ModernPlague]

@Staticnz

The Afghanistan Adventure IS worth it to the elitists making the decisions.

By invading Afghanistan, they managed to corner the market on opium (90% of the world's heroin comes from Afghan poppy fields), and can control the oil pipeline routes.

Remember what Dick Cheney said when that reporter told him most Americans don't want the war with Iraq? Cheney said, "So?" and smirked.

The elitists HATE democracy, we are peons & serfs to them, they use us like cattle.

[ModernPlague]

The American elite don't give a fuck what any of us think, they decide, we listen.

Our "democracy" consists of the elite making greedy, short-sighted, craven decisions in secret, and then using the media to convince all of us that WE actually decided on what happened, or events are made to occur (like 9/11) for the specific intent of OPINION FORMATION on the part of citizens.

Lies and pretexts, no democracy, no constitutional republic.

[taumus1]

"A war that became a great tragedy for this country." How self-absorbed are the American mentality? It's sick. The attack on Vietnam was a disaster for the Vietnamese. But no word on them because for Americans they don't count. All the American bombs are benign.

[pat442389]

1 of the problems our generals and leaders have is that when something doesnt work instead of changing the policy, our 1st action is more. iraq and afghan. not working... we need more troops and more $ spent. oh its still not working and producing the exact same results?? lets flush more money and young ppl down the shit hole. still not working? lets elect a president that promises change, yet does the same thing as before... but lets add more troops and concentrate on the opposite war

[kevjo66]

Why the hell are we funding Delta force and the seal teams for anyway. Apparently they can't do the job.

[Eye0fTheStorm]

Yeah "security" . You gain security by invading a country, butchering thousands of people, exploding faction violence, and drowing the country in blood in grief and suffering.

Every kid in Iraq and Afghanistan who had their parents and family ripped away from them by this imperial war of cocky criminal aggression, hates America now with every fiber in their body.

For every terrorist there was before the Iraq/Afghanistan criminal invasion, now there literally hundreds if not thousands more.

[ToastandMilk]

The fact that people are practicing extortion should tell you something. A hundred operatives? Hilarious ! Oh my land !?! Say -OR- believe whatever

it takes to deny your circumstances ladies .

Al qaeda has there own idea of health care.

Do you want to know what it is ?

[ToastandMilk]

Thaaaat's right.

Staaay sleeeping .

After all it's only Home Land Security we're talking about here. And when al qaeda operatives nuke your town, we can pay them for there services afterward.That is; if there's anything left after Your Health Care debts are payed. Oh yeah, that's borrowed money also . Oh, were we in a war? Whoops ! I Forgot !

Hey I got an idea let's talk about health care.

Are all Dem's this fickle ? JFK didn't have Bret Favre

syndrome.

[rikjam]

Get the fuck out of that shithole.

[Staticnz]

After seeing and hearing a lot about the Afghanistan issue I think they should get the hell out of there. It's a waste of money and a waste of lives.