Matthew Hoh: THERE IS NO WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN

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Fareed Zakaria talks to former Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh who recently resigned as a Political Officer in Afghanistan. You can watch the entire interview here.

ZAKARIA: Matthew Hoh is the young Foreign Service officer who resigned this week from his post in Afghanistan. He joins me now.

Matthew, I'm going to just start by reading a bit from your resignation letter. You say, "I fail to see the worth or value in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is truly a 35-year-old civil war."

And then you go on to say, "Thousands of our men and women have returned home with physical and mental wounds. The dead return only in bodily form to be received by families who must be reassured that their dead have been sacrificed for a purpose worthy of such futures lost, love vanished and promised dreams unkept. I have lost confidence such assurances can any more be made. As such, I submit my resignation."

These are very strong words.

Kerry To Cheney: STFU Over Afghanistan Already

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If Barack Obama and Joe Biden are not re-elected to a second term, I hope they will both stay in Washington so that they can continue to give thier daily critiques and criticisms to the incoming administration via the Sunday morning politicos.

Oh yes! - I can hear O'Reilly already demanding that Obama and Biden fade quietlty into the night out of respect for President Fiorina and Vice Presdient Palin

O'REILLY: April, 2013

"Former President Obama and former Vice President Biden are once again breaking historical new ground with their unwanted and un-needed critiques and criticisms of the newly elected administration.

President Fiorina and Vice President Palin are two of the most intallectual women of our times, and I cannot recall any previous administration using the Sunday morning talk shows to interject their opinion. It's outragious! - Once the new administration is sworn in, the previous administation has a

duty to shut up and get the hell out of town as quickly as possibe.
Now of course the loons in the far left liberal media are trying to portray the late Vice President Cheney's valuable input as meddling.

But they seem to have forgotten that the only reason that any American still walks the earth is because George Bush and Dick Cheney kept The Homeland safe from another terrorist attack after the Sept. 11, 2001 that was plotted and planned under former president Clinton's administration.

I think that John Kerry got it just right and I can hardley wait to see how he will respond to Kerry's ball-buster. I'm sure he'll probably have his daughter Liz fighting his battles for him. He's mearly a shell of the war criminal that we all remember.

Socialist Or Jihadist: You Can Only Pick One

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The claim that the Bush Administration “kept America safe from another attack.” following the September 11, 2001 attack on The Word Trade Center has been a talking point more then a fact from it’s first utterance. In order for such a statement to even be remotely true, George Bush and Dick Cheney would’ve had to pick up a rifle and stand a post in Afghanistan or Iraq. Anything short of that is not only absurd it’s bullshit.

After leaving office, the talking point became a mantra for former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz as they embarked on a media campaign following the release of legal opinions from The Department of Justices Office of Legal Council, which soon became known as “the torture memos.” - Both Cheney’s picked up the pace on their damage control tour and would always fall back on that mantra when their arguments in defense of torture where shot down like ducks in a row. “Well….at the end of the day, the Administration did keep America safe from another attack following 9/11.” Liz Cheney said countless times during the media campaign.

If that’s how the Cheney’s want us to see these events, then lets back up a few years to the first attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton not only kept up safe through out the completion of two terms in office, but he managed to find the perpetrators, bring them to justice, and do so without launching pre-emptive war against a sovereign nation.

It was only a matter of months after Clinton handed control over to George W. Bush did that protection end when the new administration ignored several warning signs. The daily briefing that warned that Bin Ladin was determined to strike inside the U.S.” was ignored and couldn’t have been more explicitly informative then a courtesy call from Osama Bin Ladin himself.

Now President Obama seems to be falling into the same trap that war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is a noble cause that will protect America. The fact of the matter is that it won’t and in fact, if anything, it will only increase the desire for Islamic extremist to launch another 9/11-style attack and weaken the Pakistani Government by pushing Al Qaeda and the Taliban across its border.

I needn’t remind the current administration that Pakistan has nuclear weapons that these groups would just love to get their hands on. Yet the Republicans would have us believe otherwise or what Bush and Cheney wanted us to believe for the better part of 8 years. The war against terror was nothing more then a jihad similar to the objectives of Blackwater. It’s chief objective was to rid the world of not only Muslim extremist but also the Muslim faith itself. Therefore, if you supported George Bush, you’re a Jihadist. After all, isn’t that the new battle cry of the right? – If you support Barack Obama, you’re a socialist. Well…I’d rather be a Socialist then a Jihadist.