Former Governor Gary Johnson, writing in The Huffington Post, pledges to bring the troops home, and takes Obama and Romney to task for their interventionist policies.
Recent polls show that more than 60 percent of Americans believe we should bring our troops home from Afghanistan — now. They are right. We should bring our young men and women home — and vow to never again fight an 11-year war when our mission was complete in six months.
Many who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 believed he would extract America from Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps be more hesitant to involve us in foreign intervention. I, too, hoped that he might at least get us out of wars we couldn’t afford and for which there was no clear American interest.
We’ve seen how that worked out. It took him three years to bring our troops home from Iraq. And Afghanistan? We’re still there, ten years, too many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars longer than necessary.
And while we were at it, we spent hundreds of millions launching missiles into Libya to topple the leader of a sovereign nation. Gaddafi was not a guy I would want running my country, but we took him out with no clear understanding of what — or who — might follow. Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney backed the expensive Libya venture.
And Gary Johnson reminds readers there is a third choice in November @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-johnson/afghanistan-war-end_b_1543964.html
For someone who is annoyed – or “confused” – by this see Thomas Sipos at http://libertarianpeacenik.blogspot.com/2012/06/gary-johnson-on-afghanistan-libya-and.html
When you say “those who worked hardest to bring him into our party” do you mean anyone besides Root? If, so who and why?
Do you believe Root was the person who worked hardest to bring Johnson in the LP? Is that actually the case?
Also, why do you think Root would be annoyed? This sounds a lot like his current foreign policy.
Gene – saying that Wayne is questionable on foreign policy is like saying that an alley-cat has questionable morals.
@ 4 – I think Ayn R Key is referring to Wayne Root, who in the past has been questionable on foreign policy issues.
@3 Who and why?
This is going to annoy those who worked hardest to bring him into our party.
Another commercial out about the FED and he continues to use the SAME music. If his goal is to have a theme song I’m all for it, but not THAT song.
Bring out troops now! Yes, yes, yes! NOW!!