Code Pink Supports Afghanistan War?
"The staunch women's anti-war group Code Pink has advocated complete withdrawal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. The group has organized countless protests and even one Code Pinker with blood-colored hands called then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice a war criminal during a congressional hearing in 2007.
But one report says the group is now rethinking its position on the Afghanistan war. The Christian Science Monitor reports that during a recent trip to Kabul, local Afghan women told Code Pinkers the situation is a lot more complicated than they think. Afghan member of Parliament and women’s activist Shinkai Karokhail told the group's founders: "In the current situation of terrorism, we cannot say troops should be withdrawn."
Those concerns convinced the founders that setting a deadline is not in Afghanistan's best interest. Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder, said: "We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline... So many people are saying that, 'If the U.S. troops left — the country would collapse. We'd go into a civil war.' A palpable sense of fear, that is making us start to reconsider that.""
Friday, October 9, 2009
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Afghanistan is in a civil war for power, between the Taliban and the War Lords, the Afghan people, especially the women, consider the Warlords far more brutal and dangerous than the Taliban, though they don't like either. The USA, caught in the middle, currently supports the Warlords, which is big mistake morally, they are worse than Nazis...code Pink just wants the war to stop but they don't want to see the Afghan women slaughtered and raped by the warlords and their soldiers, if we leave, which is likely to be the result... at least with the Taliban their faith in Islam, though oppressive to women's rights, at least prevents them from raping and brutalizing them like they do in the Congo, the women much prefer the Taliban to the warlords.
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