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Will the US send 44,000 more troops to Afghanistan as part of a counter insurgency strategy or will it instead opt for a smaller counter terrorism force?

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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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Matthew Hoh: US Has Lost Track of Why It is In Afghanistan
The Washington Note — Matthew Hoh, the first US government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan, makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war which President Obama has adopted as "the good war". In this Al Jazeera/Riz Kahn Show interview above, the former military and foreign service officer articulates what some of us on the outside have been saying about America's engagement in Afghanistan -- there is confusion about mission, a lack of focus on al Qaeda, a muddled picture of the contours and motivations of the ...

Steve Clemons: Matthew Hoh: US Has Lost Track of Why It is In Afghanistan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Matthew Hoh, the first US government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan, makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war which President Obama has adopted as "the good war". In this Al Jazeera/Riz Kahn Show interview above, the former military and foreign service officer articulates what some of us on the outside have been saying about America's engagement in Afghanistan -- there is confusion about mission, a lack of focus on al Qaeda, a muddled picture of the contours and motivations of the ...

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Former Marine Now at State Resigns
taylormarsh.com 10/27/2009 — His name is Matthew Hoh and this could turn into a story that will haunt Pres. Obama’s decision on Afghanistan every day until the strategy is announced. I’m sure it is already. Hoh simply doesn’t believe in where the U.S. mission has been and where Obama is about to ...

Afghanistan: Former Marine at State Resigns
taylormarsh.com 10/27/2009 — His name is Matthew Hoh and this could turn into a story that will haunt Pres. Obama’s decision on Afghanistan every day until the strategy is announced. I’m sure it is already. Hoh simply doesn’t believe in where the U.S. ...

Senior U.S. Official Resigns Over Strategy in Afghanistan
abcnews.go.com 10/27/2009 — Matthew Hoh, a former marine, says Afghanistan is not worth U.S. lives.

Is the US Military Presence Driving the Afghan Insurgency?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/27/2009 — DOD Photo Spencer Ackerman on the key issue raised by Matthew Hoh : The concern about the U.S. presence fueling the insurgency — not for what the U.S. does, but merely for the fact of its existence — was raised by Defense Secretary ...

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 ...

Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
original.antiwar.com 30 days ago — 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 ...

Working Beyond the Afghan Civil War — The Washington Note

For some time, I have been writing that the US has lost site of its al Qaeda-rationalized strategic objectives in Afghanistan and stumbled into a civil war. Recently resigned US official Matthew Hoh also frames the challenge in Afghanistan as that of a 35 year old civil war in which the forces ...

Why and To What End in Afghanistan — Commondreams.org Views

by Ralph Nader Matthew P. Hoh, a former U.S. combat marine captain and Department of Defense civilian in Iraq starting in 2004 and until September a political officer in the Foreign Service stationed in Afghanistan is giving some consternation to President Obama’s advisors as the Commander in ...

Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

By Robert Scheer The most idiotic thing being said about America’s involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm’s way. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 3, ...

Matthew Hoh: ‘I Firmly Believe That We Are Taking Part In A Civil War’ In Afghanistan — Think Progress

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 ...

Matthew Hoh: There is No Winning in Afghanistan — Crooks and Liars

DOWNLOADS: (33) PLAYS: (156) Fareed Zakaria talks to former Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh who recently resigned as a Political Officer in Afghanistan. You can watch the entire interview here. ZAKARIA: Matthew Hoh is the young Foreign Service officer who resigned this week from his post in ...

Official who resigned over Afghan war says many in Obama administration agree with him — News

The only U.S. official known to have resigned in protest over the war in Afghanistan on Monday said "a lot" of people in the Obama administration agree with his point of view. Matthew Hoh, a Foreign Service officer who worked in a province considered to be a Taliban stronghold in southern ...

Who are we fighting and what are we fighting for? — Comments from Left Field

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 ...

VIDEO: Fareed Zakaria Matthew Hoh Who Resigned In Protest Over Afghanistan — The Political Carnival

By GottaLaff "We don't know why we're here" indeed: CNN's Fareed Zakaria Interviews State Department Official Matthew Hoh Who Resigned In Protest Over Afghanistan War - 11/01/09 Fareed is an excellent interviewer who has equally excellent guests. I am so glad Matthew Hoh was one of them. ...

Matthew Hoh Interviewed By Zakaria: 60,000 Troops In Afghanistan Won't Defeat Al Qaida (VIDEO) — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who served in Iraq, joined Fareed Zakaria on his CNN show today to discuss why he felt compelled to resign his diplomatic post in Afghanistan over the war. Hoh told Zakaria that he no longer believed in the mission, and that the war was not "worth our guys dying ...

Matthew Hoh in the land of the free — Pundits Blog

The generals, the policymakers, the old men in suits, do not know if President Obama possesses the obstinacy that guided Lincoln and Churchill, and which must guide all war presidents to some degree. So writes David Brooks in his column today in The New York Times . He is referring to the ...

Desperately Seeking Peacenik, Pot-Smoking Hippies — Once Upon a Time...

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, ...

If Matthew Hoh Won’t Say It Then I Will Say It — LewRockwell.com Blog

In an interview today on NPR, Matthew Hoh , a former Marine who became the first U.S. foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan, was asked whether the over 800 soldiers who have already died in Afghanistan died in vain. Although Hoh acknowledged that he ...

When the Tough Should Get Going — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

By Garrison Keillor The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he’s gotten and more. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries October 27, ...

Foreign Service Officer Resigns in Afghanistan — Newshoggers.com

By John Ballard This is not today's news but today's NPR interview is a must-listen . Captain Matthew Hoh speaks with reason, authority and the calm confidence of a man who has done the right thing at great risk. A card-carrying hero, he spent enough time in Iraq to become a decorated ...

OTB Radio – Tonight at 5:30 Eastern — Outside The Beltway | OTB

The next episode of OTB Radio , our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 5:30-6:30 Eastern. Dave Schuler will cost-host and we’ll be talking about the end of the recession, the state of cable news, the Matthew Hoh kerfuffle, and whatever else comes to mind. Steve ...

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 ...

Was that Afghanistan Dissident Overhyped? — The New Republic blogs

Andrew Exum flags a Washington Post commenter who took a pretty dim view of the Post 's front-pager yesterday about Matthew Hoh, the civilian official in Afghanistan who resigned to protest America's presence there. read more

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

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 ...