Nation Building: Roads, Laws, Cops, Jobs And The Challenges Of The Afghan Surge

Andrew Macdonald   7 minutes ago (12:51 AM)

The U.S. should be playing a role in Afghanasta­n for the next decade. The military should withdraw in the next couple years, But its crucail they stay to rebuild and help set its populuce to succeed. Middle east peace will be spread through middle eastern economic expansion.

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Americans are losing our jobs, our homes, our Social Security, Medicare, police, firemen, teachers, and going into debt to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, (even our grandchild­ren won't be able to pay it off), for wars to protect and increase riches for the top elites (an oil pipeline & mineral riches in Afghanista­n, not to mention the oil contracts in Iraq).  These are riches that ordinary Americans don't get profits from, but that the Establishm­ent Elites (Dick Cheney & the Bush family among them) all are getting rich(er) from.

The American people derive only increased risk to our personal safety because those Afghans and Iraqis frustrated over the k!lling of their families and friends and of being occupied turn terr0r!st because they can't get at the political leaders ordering the bombing and occupation of their country (Obama doesn't fly commercial­, doesn't have to be gr0pe-sear­ched to travel for his job or visit family on Thanksgivi­ng).

Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st­rewn streets of Afghanista­n with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-bui­lding actually builds. Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-bu­ilding", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy)­. Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eR5BHnN__­5M

This is all going on under Obama and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress that has had a bigger arsenal of too/s available to them as the majority in power, controllin­g both chambers of Congress and the White House, than Republican­s had as the minority.
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