Last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus held its second of six scheduled forums on Afghanistan. It was the first non-classified public forum on Capitol Hill to address the Obama Administration's newly released Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.) -- a Vietnam Veteran and former chief of staff for Secretary Colin Powell -- offered some powerful words of caution.
"My soldier's soul screams at me to get out," Wilkerson said. "Part of that is some 38,000 names on a Wall that I do not fail to visit twice a year every year for the last 25 years….Counterinsurgency is not a very optimal experience. It rarely is won, it rarely results in what we might call a viable civility, prosperity and dignity. Look at Iraq right now… We never solved the problems in the Gulf."
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Colonel Wilkerson was a fairly constant critic of the Bush foreign policy. Unfortunately he still has a role, as a critic of Obama's foreign policy. Everyone assumes Wilkerson is speaking for Colin Powell. It would be nice if the discredited Powell would come out on his own and denounce the Iraq and Afghanistan mistakes. Neither follows the Powell doctrine. Peacenik agrees with Wilkerson. It is time for Canada to get out of Afghanistan. Bring the troops home now.
"My soldier's soul screams at me to get out," Wilkerson said. "Part of that is some 38,000 names on a Wall that I do not fail to visit twice a year every year for the last 25 years….Counterinsurgency is not a very optimal experience. It rarely is won, it rarely results in what we might call a viable civility, prosperity and dignity. Look at Iraq right now… We never solved the problems in the Gulf."
Read on...
Colonel Wilkerson was a fairly constant critic of the Bush foreign policy. Unfortunately he still has a role, as a critic of Obama's foreign policy. Everyone assumes Wilkerson is speaking for Colin Powell. It would be nice if the discredited Powell would come out on his own and denounce the Iraq and Afghanistan mistakes. Neither follows the Powell doctrine. Peacenik agrees with Wilkerson. It is time for Canada to get out of Afghanistan. Bring the troops home now.
