Former Marine Captain Resigns to Protest Afghan War

Glenn Greenwald reports that Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, resigned from his position from the Foreign Service. Hoh was the the senior U.S. civilian in the Taliban-dominated Southern Afghanistan province of Zabul. In his resignation letter, Hoh states that our war in Afghanistan will not only inevitably fail, but is fueling the very insurgency we are trying to defeat.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/10/27/afghanistan/index.html