State Department Official in Afghanistan Resigns Over U.S. Strategy
October 27th, 2009Via: ABC News:
A key U.S. official in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over U.S. policy in the war-torn region, as the Obama administration deliberates its future strategy there.
Matthew Hoh, 36, a senior foreign service officer, wrote a four-page letter to Ambassador Nancy Powell, director general of the foreign service at the State Department, to express his “doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy,” as first reported by the Washington Post today.
“To put simply, I fail to see the value or the worth in the continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war,” the former Marine wrote in the emotional letter.
Hoh spent six years in Iraq, where he served as a Marine Corps captain and then as a civilian for the Department of Defense.
Hoh told the Washington Post he decided to speak out publicly because “I want people in Iowa, people in Arkansas, people in Arizona, to call their congressman and say, ‘Listen, I don’t think this is right.'”
The U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl W. Eikenberry, and Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, apparently tried to talk Hoh out of resigning. The latter even offered him a job but Hoh declined, according to the Post.
The military action in Afghanistan is a grotesque sham. As per the writings of historian/analyst William F. Engdahl, the most coherent explanation for the U.S. presence there is about controlling the several trillion dollar heroin trade-Afghanistan is the largest producer on the planet-
and maintaining a presence in Eurasia for the purposes of monitoring (and where possible) undermining the increasingly joint efforts of our two greatest rivals, China and Russia.
All other rationalization being trafficed in by MSM and officialdom, contain/wipe out terrorism,
install democracy and other such claptrap are nothing by covers for motives that reside in a mix of criminality and realpolitik.
For anyone interested, here is a link to William Engdahl’s latest on Afghanistan.
http://engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Afghanistan/afghanistan.html
The foreign service is no place for a person with a conscience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI
Everyone with aspirations should watch Yes (Prime)Minister 😀