Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Hayden, Chertoff Buck Republican Call To Bring Troops Home From Afghanistan

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman want a faster withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and a growing number of GOP members of Congress have also concluded it's time to end the fight.

But two former U.S. officials who helped lead President George W. Bush's war on terrorism say the killing of Osama bin Laden and the mounting cost of the Afghan campaign are no reason to leave just yet.

"We will be in a stronger political position for a political outcome for this if we sustain relatively constant force levels through this fighting season and for at least the 2012 fighting season," said Michael Hayden, the former director of both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, at a policy briefing Thursday. "Give war a chance."

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said that despite rising anger among lawmakers over Pakistan's duplicity -- the latest outrage, its reported arrest of informants who helped make the successful raid on bin Laden's complex possible -- President Barack Obama should not high-tail it out of the region.

Full Article
Source: Huffington 
Topics: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)