Thursday, February 19, 2009

Not so fast on Afghanistan, top Democrat warns

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Senate_Democrat_questions_Obama_Afghanistan_0218.html

RAW STORY: "Feingold hasn't made a secret of his skepticism of augmenting US troops in the country the Soviet Union once tried to hold.

"If the devastating policies of the [Bush] administration have proved anything, it's that we need to ask tough questions before deploying our brave service members รข€" and that we need to be suspicious of Washington 'group think,'" he wrote in a Christian Science Monitor editorial last October. "Otherwise, we are setting ourselves up for failure." "