{"id":22575,"date":"2011-03-13T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22575"},"modified":"2011-03-13T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T14:05:23","slug":"ivaw-is-ok-with-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22575","title":{"rendered":"IVAW is OK with the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"

TJ Buonomo, a long-time meber of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, but not an Iraq veteran<\/a>, writes on their website<\/a>;<\/p>\n

On 8 March 2011, IVAW requested that Senator Diane Feinstein, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, request declassification of intelligence reports on the Taliban and Al Qaeda. To date there has been insufficient public debate within Congress on whether the defeat of the Taliban is vital to the protection of the American people from terrorist attacks and numerous prominent national security commentators have made compelling arguments that this is not the case or at the very least that this assumption should be re-examined. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I has an hours long conversation with TJ<\/a> back in 2009 and I got the impression that he thinks he’s a pretty smart feller, but this missive proves otherwise. Everyone on the planet knows that the Taliban protected and at least provided minimum logistical support to al Qaeda. And before 9-11, no one on the planet thought for a second that goat-roping Stone Age shepherds were a threat to the American people. <\/p>\n

So why is Buonomo trying to end the war against the Taliban? He did the same thing before the “surge” in Iraq. It’s so scary to them that we might actually be successful in a war against our enemies, they’re willing to let an entire country fall under the iron sandals of the Taliban again. <\/p>\n

If Buonomo had read even the slightest bit of history from before 9-11, he could answer his own questions. His contention that there has been “insufficient public debate within Congress” proves he hasn’t been listening. But that’s Buonomo’s favorite tactic – it’s only rhetorical flourishes for the sake of discussion.<\/p>\n

On a similar note, the anti-war hen house formerly called “After Downing Street” has renamed itself “War Is A Crime<\/a>“. Doesn’t that, in turn, mean that the troops are criminals? Haven’t these dolts learned anything in the last forty years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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