I encourage everyone who believes that this now seven year war in Afghanistan is a hopeless military event to write your Senators, Congressmen and the White House. There are only 100 Al Qaeda left, I have read, and we are spending billions of dollars there, fighting in a tribal area that is never going to become an industrialized civilized country. We could do more helping them build hospitals and schools, helping them to join the 21st Century.
The Nation — The California Democratic Party speaks with an loud voice in national politics.
It is, by any reasonable measure, the biggest party in the biggest state in the nation.
And it is a well-organized, forward-looking organization that since the 1950s has had a tradition of delivering vital messages from the base to national Democratic leaders. Indeed, in the 1960s, California Democrats were among the first and loudest critics of President Lyndon Johnson’s decision to expand the war in Vietnam. They were not merely opposed to the war; they were worried, wisely, that committing resources, governing energy and political capital to an unwise and unnecessary war would undermine the ability of an otherwise popular Democratic president to deliver on his ambitious domestic agenda.
With their history and their heft in mind, it is reasonable to say that when California Democrats take a strong stand on a contentious issues, it matters — both as a signal with regard to popular sentiment within the party and as an indicator of the issues that could cause political headaches for a Democratic president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20091116/cm_thenation/1497611
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The end of the world according to the Aztec calendar and Nostradomus is supposed to be in 2012. Or some major event anyway. Wouldn’t it be cool if you looked on TV sometime and the whole world has decided to never fight again. Like the formation of a world government like the United Federation on Star Trek.
Comment by S Brown November 17, 2009 @ 8:21 amPlus people should know, they don’t have to write a 2 page letter; They can keep postcards around the house for this purpose.
Comment by S Brown November 18, 2009 @ 6:23 amMy cat says this is like Vietnam all over again. Except that this time the American public is to apathetic to deal with it. This is by DESIGN, she tells me. I said, but Barak Obama is a swell guy, right? And she says, like a ventriloquist act, we are. “I think being president is like having your nuts in the grinder.”
Comment by S Brown December 5, 2009 @ 9:48 am