Monday, September 14, 2009

How to get the money to pay for health care reform?

One thing that would help a lot would be to join Feminist Peace Network in the campaign We Need An Exit Strategy For Afghanistan NOW.
The Feminist Peace Network is participating in a week-long effort to demand an exit strategy for Afghanistan. While certainly believing that there should be accountability for the bombing of the World Trade Center and the many lives that were lost that day, the Afghan people were not responsible for what happened and the United States’ unending campaign to destroy Afghanistan that has cost so many Afghan lives has clearly failed to destroy the Taliban and is unsupportable and needs to end.

As this blog has pointed out countless times, despite the use of the human rights of women in Afghanistan as part of the justification for our actions, the lives of Afghan women remain at extreme peril and the continuing militarism only exacerbates the everyday dangers that they face. It is time not only to get out but to substantively provide the Afghan people and especially Afghan women with the means to rebuild their country. Doing so would make us all much safer.

2 comments:

Feminist Peace Network said...

Thanks for posting this--interesting note--our annual military budget for one year is more than Obama's health care plan would cost in 10 years!

amazon grace said...

Thanks to you, too.