October 27th, 2009
Resignation Heard Around the World?
A senior U.S. official in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, became the first known U.S. official to resign in protest to the Afghanistan War. While this resignation probably will not be heard around the world, it is still a step in the right direction. Hoh, a former Marine Corp. captain with experience in Iraq, began working in Afghanistan earlier this year. However, after only five months in Afghanistan he describes the conflict as:
“..reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular corrupt government we backed at the expense of our Nation’s own internal peace.”
This is a major resignation, and definitively a blow to Obama administration’s plan in Afghanistan. Hoh is not, as he himself put it so eloquently:
‘..I’m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love.. There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed, I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.’
