Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Time To Have The Debate About Afghanistan

Filed under: Asia | War — by Will Kirkland @ 7:25 am
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“My concerns with a de facto escalation rests on a number of big myths that have proven false:

1) It’s not a “good war”

2) There is something to “win.”

3) The Afghanistan war is about Afghanistan

4) Surges always work.

5) We have to “do something.”

You’ll want to read it all to get the supporting arguments for the propositions. Read on.

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison, 1795



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