Spreading Democracy in Afghanistan

I have long railed against our War in Afghanistan… indeed, railed against our practice  of Perpetual War…. What we are doing there is simply wrong.

The neo-con idea of spreading democracy through the use of force, an idea taken up and run with by our current Nobel Peace Prize winning Democratic President, and condoned by the boy’s and girl’s club in Washington, is quite simply, ridiculous.

Destroying the homes, the lives, the possessions of the Afghani citizens that lived in this village does not promote their friendship, does not promote the idea of America as a peaceful, democratic society that deserves emulation.

Read this article.  Look at the photographs.

How Short-Term Thinking is Causing Long-Term Failure in Afghanistan – Joshua Foust – International – The Atlantic.

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