Change In Leaders, Not Wars -- Danny Westneat, Seattle TimesDid you know there are more U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan now than before the antiwar candidate, Barack Obama, took office...
Did you know there are more U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan now than before the antiwar candidate, Barack Obama, took office eight months ago?
Joe Colgan, of Kent, knows. He lost his son Ben in one of these wars. So it's no stretch to say he is painfully aware.
"I guess it was naive, but I thought things might be getting a little easier by now," Colgan says. "It isn't — it's getting harder. Everything's still headed in Cheney's direction. It's confounding."
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My Comment: For the past 8 years I continuously argued with my friends and other bloggers that much of the anti-war movement was politically driven to put pressure on a Republican administration that was dedicated to fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than being a critic of the war itself.
It has been 8 months since President Obama's inauguration ..... and my critics have disappeared.
Am I angry .... yes. I am also disappointed because I was hoping that my critics were right.
The war in Afghanistan is now going to enter a new and dangerous phase .... and unlike Iraq where there was always a realization that the war was going to end one day .... Afghanistan does not give that impression at all.
The antiwar movement has disappeared for now .... but as the war continues to grind on in Afghanistan, I expect the antiwar movement to morph into something that is less influenced by the Democrat Party, and more true to their principles on why they are antiwar.
At least I hope so.