The Politics of Courage: Why Continue This Country's Longest War?

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Why Continue This Country's Longest War?

This graph I made puts into some perspective the start of the 14th year of the United States' long-pointless occupation of Afghanistan -- an operation very much overshadowed by President Obama's latest misadventure.

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, ...unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
-Pres. Franklin Roosevelt

"We must replace the politics of fear with the politics of courage."
-Dr. Jill Stein

"A courageous vote is the only vote worthwhile." -Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"The most common way people give up their power is to think they have none." -Prof. Alice Walker

"If we don't fight hard enough for the things for which we stand, ...we have to recognize we don't really stand for them." -Sen. Paul Wellstone

"We can expect more, because we've had more." -Prof. Zephyr Teachout

"It is time we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship."
-Gen. Omar Bradley

"The time is always ripe to do right."
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.