Howard Dean – former DNC Chairman, ex-Governor of Vermont, and all-around liberal icon – spent a few minutes with me on the phone over the weekend, and was kind enough to make a bit of news. He called on President Obama to end the war in Afghanistan, a conflict he has long supported, because he’s come to believe it’s not “winnable.”
From the article (which you can read here):
“I supported (ramping up troop presence) because I was concerned with what would happen to the women in the country” if the Taliban took control, Dean said. “But I recently read about Karzai saying some very sexist, terrible things, and it’s become obvious that there’s not a whole lot of difference between the two sides.”
He continued: “As much as I feel terrible about what’s happening to the women there, Karzai has shown he can’t be trusted any more than the Taliban to help them.”
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