Will the United States opt to send 44000 more troops to Afghanistan as part of a counterinsurgency strategy, or will it opt for a smaller counterterrorism force? With a decision expected in the next few weeks, reports indicate that President Barack Obama is looking for a middle-of-the-road plan....
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Katie Couric spoke to former Marine Corps veterans Nathaniel Fick and Matthew Hoh about the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
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Former Marine resigns from Afghan post in protest of war; says U.S. occupation is spurring violence in a civil war and is not defeating Al Qaeda
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Just last month, Matthew Hoh resigned from his position at the State Department to protest the Obama administrations seeming determination to send tens of thousands more American troops to a disastrous war in Afghanistan. In that short time, Hoh has become one of the smartest, most compelling, a...
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Matthew Hoh, former Marine, resigned from his State Department post in the Zabul province of Afghanistan, stating "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war". Resigna...
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These wars are not ours! US occupancy in Iraq and Afghanistan is NOT WORTH all the American lives being lost. Atleast former marine and Afghanistan Official Matthew Hoh has the balls to admit it! So really..Why are we there, Mr President? Why? ... Matthew Hoh Resigns Afghanistan Iraq ivil Wars N...
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Matthew Hoh’s letter indicating US mission in Iraq is not a moral mission. Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on CIA Payroll By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the opium trade, has gotten payment...
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CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS Report. Matthew Hoh, the first US official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, gives Fareed one of his first interviews since resigning. Matthew Hoh’s resignation letter in protest of the war in Afghanistan has put him in the media spotlight. In his letter he s...
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Matthew Hoh is a former Marine Captain who fought in Iraq. He worked for Holbrook at the State Department. Hoh was stationed in Aghanistan where he learned first hand that the United States is in the middle of a civil war. Afghanistan is a bad chess move. President Obama needs to man...
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