Don’t be naive, hippies

Sporkmaster sent us this video from The Ed Show in which, Jeremy Schahill from the Nation makes the case for withdrawing from Afghanistan because “you will never be able to destroy terrorism around the world”.

Yeah, it won’t be defeated as long as the hippies broadcast to the world that we don’t have the will to defeat terrorism.

At the Huffington Post, Derrick Crowe of Brave New Foundation (another cover group for “Rethink Afghanistan”) calls for our withdrawal from Afghanistan because of bin Laden’s death;

This is the first week after Bin Laden’s death, and during this week we’ll spend more than $2 billion on Afghanistan War. Every week we continue to do so is a week when bin Laden is laughing at us from the grave.

He’s dead. We should go home now.

How naive and simplistic can one person be? Is Crowe saying that our only reason for spending billions in Afghanistan was to kill one man? Out of the expression of one emotional response – that emotional response being revenge? During the Bush Administration, the left was fond of telling us that that the death of bin Laden wouldn’t change anything in the war against terror, now they’re telling us that it changes everything.

So which is it?

Category: Antiwar crowd, Terror War