Debate grows over Obama's plan to escalate War in S.W. Asia

A side, or cautionary, note to far-right and ultra-conservative critics of the Obama administration, there is a vast difference between Obama bashing, and questioning, debating, and oppositing mostly Obama’s continuation of Bush foreign policies because they are either too Bush lite or more radical than what the Bush admin did. (WINK). Regardless, this is also a potential vulnerability for the progressive movement and Democratic politcal candidates who lean too far right going into the next election cycle after a spring and summer of Pro-Peace demonstations and grassroots activism.

Several grassroots organizations that were instrumental in getting Obama elected are now leading the charge in questioning and opposing plans to escalate the Bush war into Afghansitan, Pakistan, and beyond. With the exception of MoveON.org that has thus far remained silent on the issues surrounding Afghanistan, and VoteVets which has come out in strong defense and promotion of escalating war in S.W. Asia, most other progressive organizations are asking themselves the hard questions.

Voters for Peace, and True Majority have come out with debates and questions on Afghanistan if not outright opposition, and Robert Greenwood’s Brave New Films which gave the American voter such inside information as the Fiscal Cost of the Iraq War, and Defense Contractor Waste and Profit, has launched the Brave New Films Foundation in a grassroots effort to raise debate and promote opposition to escalaton of war in Afghanistan with his Retink Afghanistan Campaign.

Retink Afghanistan is gathering grassroots volunteers and workers from across the nation and producing a series of documentary films related to the downside of escalation of war in Afghanistan, especially the economic costs, in an attempt to better educate the voters going into the November elections and beyond.

When I signed up to be a Peacemaker, for "PEACE WAS ONCE MY PROFESSION," I was asked what question I would have for expert debaters on both sides of the issues surrouding escalation of the Afghanistan War, Dr. Lawrence Korb, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of The Nation. ”

The short and to the point question I
asked was, "Should the American people be
asked to seriously share in the sacrifice,
costs, and burden of war alongside our
troops or just continue sitting on the
sidelines and cheer? If share in our troops
sacrifice, in what ways?

If you have a short question to the point, especially as it relates to military families and our troops NOT what it will economically or politically cost the other 99% who cannot relate once we commit to Afghanistanam. Click the WHAT WOULD YOU ASK" Link and ask it