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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">To members and friends of Historians Against the War,<br></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The HAW
Steering Committee has voted to adopt the following two
statements related to the war in Afghanistan.</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Statement on military resistance:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This
statement was submitted by Staughton Lynd and approved by the HAW Steering
Committee.<span style=""> </span>Correspondence on it should
be sent to another member of the Steering Committee, Carl Mirra, a former
military resister and author of </span></i><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;">Soldiers and
Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to
the Pentagon.</span></em><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style=""> </span>His e-mail address is <a href="mailto:carlmirra@aol.com">carlmirra@aol.com</a>.</span></i></p>
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">Historians Against the War supports soldiers in the
United States military who refuse to fight in Afghanistan, either as
conscientious objectors or on the grounds that the United States is committing
war crimes forbidden by Nuremburg and the Army Field Manual, such as the use of
drone aircraft in Pakistan.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Statement on Escalation in Afghanistan</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This statement originated
in a draft suggested by Herbert Shapiro, emeritus history professor at the
University of Cincinnati.<span style=""> </span>It was amended
somewhat in discussions within the Steering Committee and adopted. </span></i></p>
<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Historians Against War (HAW) expresses
its opposition to the escalation of the Afghanistan War announced by President
Obama in his December 1 speech at West Point. One again we are told the United
States must increase its commitment of human and material resources in support
of a government, steeped in corruption, that fails to demonstrate support of a
majority of its country’s population. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
his speech, President Obama took issue with any claim that Afghanistan is
another Vietnam. The two conflicts are not carbon copies of each other but
there are distinct similarities. And if we go on with the Afghan War it may be
that we have not fully learned the lessons of Vietnam. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Vietnamese would not yield to a counter-insurgency that believed sending
increasing numbers of troops, dropping more and more napalm upon them, and
flying more bombing runs was a formula for victory. They would not yield to a
strategy that could not distinguish between soldiers and civilians and
pretended that a discredited Saigon regime had the support of the people over
whom it ruled. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
Afghanistan we once more follow the path of escalation, inflicting “collateral”
damage on a civilian population and propping up a corrupt government. In the
present war we once more adopt a “guns not butter” policy, making war while
undermining our ability to devote the resources needed to make the economic
reforms so urgently needed at home.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Afghanistan’s
own recent history provides further reason for opposing the Obama
administration’s current course of action. The Soviet experience of the late
1970s and early 1980s dramatically reinforced Afghanistan’s role as the
“graveyard of empires.” At the same time, U.S. intervention in the form of aid
to the most reactionary anti-Soviet forces helped lay the groundwork for the
emergence of al-Qaeda.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">HAW
urges a change in direction. We need an Afghanistan policy that includes a
full, early, and orderly withdrawal of U.S. military forces, economic assistance
to Afghani civil society, and a relinquishment of any project for permanent
U.S. bases. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
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