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U.S. needs fast exit to stop mindless killing in Middle East
By Mark Weisbrot
WASHINGTON — There is perhaps no time in
American history when our leaders have fought a war with so little
support.
Published: December 20,
2012
More than 60 percent of Americans want out of Afghanistan. Even at the peak of the anti-Vietnam War movement, after a majority had turned against the war, there were still a large number of citizens who believed in the war and its official justifications. Today, as my colleague Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy notes, “Western leaders have largely given up trying to explain or justify why Western troops are still in Afghanistan and why they are still killing and being killed.”
Yet the war goes on, and even the White House plans for too slowly reducing the U.S. troop presence meet resistance from the Pentagon.
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