[Marxism] Sheehan & Afghanistan

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From the transcript of Sheehan's Hardball appearance:

URL: <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8972147/>

MATTHEWS:  Can I ask you a tough question?  A very tough question.

SHEEHAN:  Yes.

MATTHEWS:  All right.  If your son had been killed in Afghanistan, would you
have a different feeling?

SHEEHAN:  I don't think so, Chris, because I believe that Afghanistan is
almost the same thing.  We're fighting terrorism.  Or terrorists, we're
saying.  But they're not contained in a country.  This is an ideology and
not an enemy.  And we know that Iraq, Iraq had no terrorism.  They were no
threat to the United States of America.

MATTHEWS:  But Afghanistan was harboring, the Taliban was harboring al-Qaida
which is the group that attacked us on 9/11.

SHEEHAN:  Well then we should have gone after al-Qaida and maybe not after
the country of Afghanistan.

MATTHEWS:  But that's where they were being harbored.  That's where they
were headquartered.  Shouldn't we go after their headquarters?  Doesn't that
make sense?

SHEEHAN:  Well, but there were a lot of innocent people killed in that
invasion, too.  ...  But I'm seeing that we're sending our ground troops in
to invade countries where the entire country wasn't the problem.  Especially
Iraq.  Iraq was no problem.  And why do we send in invading armies to march
into Afghanistan when we're looking for a select group of people in that
country?

So I believe that our troops should be brought home out of both places where
we're obviously not having any success in Afghanistan.  Osama bin Laden is
still on the loose and that's who they told us was responsible for 9/11.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com



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