Democrats MUST resist the Pakistan-Afghanistan escalation

[Ken Burch]

I can understand Candidate Obama feeling the need to show "toughness" on the campaign trial by making threats about Pakistan and deeper involvement in Afghanistan.

But we HAVE to stop him getting in deeper.

An escalation in this region, given all we know about the way people fight there, is inevitably going to get us into a situation in Southwest Asia as bad as the one i Southeast Asia that killed 50,000 Americans and 1,000,000 Vietnamese, destroyed the Johnson Administration and created the Second Republican Ascendancy that we've just now ended.

This is not a winnable war.

And trying to impose democratic and secular values in Afghanistan, while destablizing the recovering democracy in Pakistan(U.S. attacks there will almost certainly lead to yet ANOTHER military coup, CANNOT BE DONE.

Iraq is proof of that.

Before it's too late, before Our New President gets dragged down by something that isn't what this Administration is supposed to be about, WE MUST BRING THIS TO A HALT!

We may need massive resistance. We may need to shut down the Capitol and the rest of our major cities. But we cannot let this nightmare happen again.

Don't let "HOPE" be slaughtered in the Khyber Pass.