Obama Sends Mixed Messages in Speech on Future of Afghan War

Interview with Tom Hayden, former California legislator, activist and co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society, conducted by Scott Harris

Marking the one-year anniversary of his order that sent a U.S. Navy Seal team into Pakistan, where they killed al Qaida leader Osama bin-Laden, President Obama traveled in secrecy to Afghanistan on May 1, where he addressed the nation about the Afghan war. In a speech televised live from a military hangar at the U.S. Bagram Air base, the president outlined his plan to end the Afghan conflict, in his words, "responsibly."

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"Hayden portrays the Reagan and Bush eras as counter-movements against the Sixties which ultimately failed, and the Obama presidency as a delayed achievement. "
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I don't trust Mr. Hayden and I don't for an instant believe anything about his opinions of al-CIAda or OBL's supposed death at the hands of anything besides renal failure, ten years ago.
Maybe I'm envious of his marriage to Barbarella. Nah..
I just remember an anti-war movement infiltrated with intellectuals who were ineffectual.