It's Different When Obama Does It, Part 35
The anti-war group Code Pink, run by the unemployed Castro-loving activist Medea Benjamin, is "rethinking" its opposition to the war in Afghanistan, according to the Christian Science Monitor:
Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the US invasion of Iraq, is one of the more high-profile women's antiwar groups being forced to rethink its position as Afghan women explain theirs: Without international troops, they say, armed groups could return with a vengeance - and that would leave women most vulnerable….
While the group hasn't dropped its call for a pullout, the visit convinced them that setting a deadline isn't in Afghanistan's interests, say Ms. Benjamin and fellow cofounder Jodie Evans.
"We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline," says Benjamin. "That's where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, 'If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We'd go into civil war.' A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that."
Back when he was on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson asked Benjamin about her group's "reality tours" to Venezuela.
