28 Oct 2009
Widening rifts over America’s war in Afghanistan were laid bare Tuesday with the revelation that a State Department official recently resigned in protest over what he termed a “cavalier, politically expedient and Pollyannaish misadventure.”
Foreign Service Officer Matthew Hoh, a 36-year-old former Marine Corps captain, submitted his resignation letter on September 10.
…”I do not believe any military force has ever been tasked with such a complex, opaque and Sisyphean mission as the U.S. military has received in Afghanistan,” Hoh wrote.
