"A Pollyannaish Misadventure"....that's what Matthew Hoh, a leading U.S official in Afghanistan called the war. The Washington Post's article is painfully insightful and his resignation letter is extremely sad and from a foreign policy perspective....very troublesome to me.
His words read like pages out of a Malalai Joya book or speech. The question is...is anyone listening?
Read the Washington Post article: Here
Read His letter of resignation: here
Quotes from his resignation letter and the WP article:
"Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency's true nature, reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our nation's own internal peace, against an insurgency whose nationalism we arrogantly and ignorantly mistook as a rival to our own Cold War ideology." (Letter)
"I'm not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love."
"American families, he said at the end of the letter, "must be reassured their dead have sacrificed for a purpose worthy of futures lost, love vanished, and promised dreams unkept. I have lost confidence such assurances can be made any more...If the United States is to remain in Afghanistan, Hoh said, he would advise a reduction in combat forces"
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