Senator Kirk (MA): No more troops to Afghanistan

[Bluebear]

Without a legitimate and credible Afghan partner, that counterinsurgency strategy is fundamentally flawed. The current Afghan government is neither legitimate nor credible," he said. "We should not send a single additional dollar in aid or add a single American serviceman or woman to the 68,000 already courageously deployed in Afghanistan until we see a meaningful move by the Karzai regime to root out its corruption....

Obama has inherited no good options, but a more focused strategy with no additional troops stands out as preferable to all the others.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/11/29/no_more_troops_to_afghanistan/

[FLAprogressive]

1. any chance we can get this guy to run for re-election?

[Bluebear]

2. no, he pledged he would not run when he was appointed

[FLAprogressive]

3. hopefully Capuano wins the special election. he refused to fund the war.

[Bluebear]

6. It's gonna be Coakley

I am a Capuano guy myself.

[FLAprogressive]

7. is Coakley DLC?

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

4. He can and should try to block the funding n/t

[Mari333]

5. That is what I have been calling my senators and congresspeople to tell them all day

BLOCK THE FUNDS.