Robert Greenwald: Take Troops Out Of Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Robert Greenwald, director of the new film Rethink Afghanistan, appeared on "The Ed Show" Wednesday night to make a case against further troop deployments in that country. Greenwald argued against the knee-jerk use of military force and the deadfast belief that violence makes a safer world.

The issue, as Greenwald put it, is about halting Al Qaeda, who are largely absent in Afghanistan, and not about nation-building. Citing Gen. David Petraeus, Greenwald urged progressives to focus on international police cooperation, not unilateral occupation.

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[chlai88]

This is Hobson's choice for Obama. All options are suboptimal with dubious outcomes. Sending in the troops will mean siding with the unpopular Karzai & push more people over to the Taliban & ending up like Vietnam or the USSR. Not sending in the troops will have possibility of chaos & civil war with the Taliban as one of the opposing forces. The Taliban coulld grow in strength together with who knows other factions who are anti-American. The war is unwinnable any which way. The only choice may be to cut losses and just contain the Taliban while waiting for the country's internal politics to play out.

[macohmz]

Nothing can really be done in this country while those 2 wars continually drain off resources. Even with the economy so bad here, all they can think about is maintaining Bush's wars.

[thegloriouscause]

get our military out of iraq, japan, korea, germany and all 140 countries we're in while we're at it.