War in Afghanistan

Please take note of a 6/25/2010 story by Matthew Rosenberg in the WSJ, this is the opening paragraph: “More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years, a sum so large that U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad.” Another alarming quote: “One figure often cited by Afghan and Western officials is $10 million a day leaving Afghanistan. That is $3.65 billion a year, more than a quarter of the current GDP.” This is taxpayer money (borrowed from foreign investors no less – but that is another subject) to fight a war for which no reasonable person can even define what “winning” would even be! This report follows a Washington Post piece by Karen DeYoung on 6/22/2010 that begins with the following paragraph: “The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators.”


This war effort is Mr. Obama’s greatest mistake. Whatever you think of Health Care and Financial Reform legislation at least there is potential that some American citizens might actually be helped and that is clearly not something you can say about the Afghan war. American’s should be outraged and every wasted life and every wasted dollar lost in this useless, meaningless war – GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!