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original.antiwar.com - 10/29/2009
Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
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Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh, Senior Civilian Representative, Afghanistan September 10, 2009 Ambassador Nancy J. Powell Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. ...
Matthew Hoh: Foreign Service official resigns in protest over Afghan war
washingtonpost.com - 10/29/2009
Matthew Hoh: Foreign Service official resigns in protest over Afghan war
— washingtonpost.com — Former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting... (more) Matthew Hoh: Foreign Service official resigns in protest ...

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enewspf.com - 10/28/2009
U.S. Diplomat Resigns to Protest War in Afghanistan
— enewspf.com — Glaring corruption and unabashed graft; President whose confidants and chief advisers comprise drug lords and war crimes... villains, who mock our own rule of law and counternarcotics efforts; A system of prvincial and district leaders constituted of ... (more) U.S. Diplomat Resigns to Protest War in Afghanistan

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Foreign Service Officer Resigns in Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com — ... efforts in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. Later, as a captain in the Marines, he fought in Iraq's Anbar province, where he was cited for "uncommon bravery." After his stints in Iraq, Hoh signed on as a foreign service official in Afghanistan, working on development efforts in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. I cannot imagine that his words and action have not been noted by the administration. Let's hope they pay attention. His resignation letter is a compelling document. If the history of ...

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The Denial Continues, and the Horror Remains Unrecognized
powerofnarrative.blogspot.com 10/29/2009 — As soon as I read this Washington Post story about the resignation of Matthew Hoh, I knew I would write this article. The story is significant not only in itself, but also in the altogether predictable reaction it would elicit, particularly from those ...
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Last week, former Marine captain and State Department employee Matthew Hoh made headlines when he went public with his resignation from the administration over his opposition to the continuation of the war in Afghanistan. In a four-page letter he sent to the State Department, he explained his ...
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Matthew Hoh, a Marine veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, was rising quickly through our Foreign Service ranks, serving as a Senior Civilian Representative for America in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. Hoh had a bright government career ahead of him until he quit because the Ahghan war is ...
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I. Give Me the Hippies. Please. There were several issues I wanted to discuss in my previous post about Matthew Hoh and his resignation , but I finally decided I was unable to include them, primarily because they were off the track of my central argument. Since I published the earlier article, ...
David Quigg: Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When Hoh Took His Job — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
I'm pretty pissed off right now. It makes less than zero sense to me that Matthew Hoh's resignation as "the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province" seems to be swaying sensible people from Christopher Buckley to Garrison Keillor to Andrew Sullivan . We all, naturally, have heard of Zabul ...
Slideshow: Here's My Resignation — The New Republic blogs
President Obama’s choice about Afghanistan isn’t getting any easier. Last week Matthew Hoh, a senior State Department official in the country, resigned to protest U.S. policies there. Hoh said he didn't "see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or ...
Slideshow: Here’s My Resignation — The New Republic
President Obama’s choice about Afghanistan isn’t getting any easier. Last week Matthew Hoh, a senior State Department official in the country, resigned to protest U.S. policies there. Hoh said he didn't "see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or ...
Slideshow: Here's My Resignation — The New Republic
President Obama's choice about Afghanistan isn’t getting any easier. Last week Matthew Hoh, a senior State Department official in the country, resigned to protest U.S. policies there. Hoh said he didn't "see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of ...
Hurrah for Hoh! — At-Largely
Posted by Jeff Huber “I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan.” --Matthew Hoh Foreign Service Officer Matthew Hoh’s resignation... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]  ...
The View From Kabul — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Exum puts the resignation of Afghanistan Senior Civilian representative Matthew Hoh in context. Here is the WaPo's take on the story and here ( pdf ) is the resignation letter. From the letter: To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or ...
Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter — LewRockwell.com Blog
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Senator: Diplomat's resignation 'reflects a great deal of frustration' — Home/News
A key senator said Tuesday that the resignation of a Foreign Service officer over the war in Afghanistan "reflects a great deal of frustration" regarding the conflict. Matthew Hoh, an ex-Marine captain, was serving as the top U.S. civilian in a southern Afghanistan province known as a Taliban ...
Senator: Diplomat's resignation over Afghanistan war reflects 'frustration' — Home/News
A senator says the resignation of a Foreign Service officer over the Afghanistan war "reflects a great deal of frustration" regarding the conflict on Tuesday. Matthew Hoh, an ex-Marine captain, was serving as the top U.S. civilian in a southern Afghanistan province known as a Taliban hotbed. He ...
Senator: Diplomat's resignation over Afghanistan 'reflects a great deal of frustration' — Home/News
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Senator: Diplomat's resignation over Afghanistan reflects 'frustration' — News
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A Troubling Resignation — JustOneMinute
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A disappointment. A former Marine captain with intense and traumatic duty in Iraq, who became a PRT team in Afghanistan, has resigned and refused high-level offers to stay onboard. Matthew Hoh now advises scaling back in Afghanistan, says our presence there is the problem. Lefty bloggers and ...