Last week, President Obama announced that 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan until 2016. Not mentioned were the 60,000 private contractors who will also remain in the country.
The time for this war to end is now. Please sign on to these appeals from Peace Action and Win Without War to tell President Obama to bring home our troops.
From Win Without War’s appeal:
By continuing the war for more than two more years, these plans ignore the simple truth that there is no military solution to the challenges that remain in Afghanistan. There is nothing that 10,000 troops will do in two years that 100,000 could not do in the past 13.
The U.S. war in Afghanistan, now in its 13th year, has cost our nation dearly. More than 2,300 Americans – over 1,600 alone since I resigned in 2009 – and tens of thousands of Afghans have lost their lives. Many, many more have been wounded and will bear the scars of battle for decades to come. Like the Iraq War, Afghanistan has been financed on our nation’s credit card, adding nearly $800 billion to our debt, with billions more to come. And yet the war is not yet over.
Take action today!
