Code Pink now suddenly pro-occupation in Afghanistan

If Medea Benjamin likes anything, it can then be reasonably concluded that there’s a “defeat America” goal being endorsed by Benjamin/Code Pink.

Benjamin’s likely all gungho suddenly on Afghanistan because she says: “the presence of U.S. troops is the best recruitment tool Al Queada has.”

She supports anything that will place the U.S. at a disadvantage if not ruin more lives of more people in service to the U.S.

I’d no more regard her opinion than I would embrace a rattle snake.

Lourdes on October 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM

Medea Benjamin’s interview on antiwar radio made no sense in my opinion.

She doesn’t want the troops there fighting yet she also doesn’t want the Taliban. I don’t trust that code pink lady.

Spathi on October 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM

She’s trying to rationalize “nation building” money for, likely, the Clinton Foundation. Benjamin’s just trying to sell a dollar-siphoning operation or the continuance of one.

Most of the “let’s raise people out of poverty” lines are those that use the poor; they “help people” here and there but overall, it’s not about what their sales pitch is (“let’s raise people out of poverty”), it’s about themselves and various spinoffs using other people’s money.

Benjamin is just doing what she does and always has done: emotional theatre for purposes of negating the U.S.A. while siphoning off the dollars.

Afghanistan is going to be the world’s heroin producer tomorrow, the day after that, next decade, next century, and as long as people buy their product. We can chop it down, burn it down, try to “educate Afghanis” to grow, say, beans and corn instead, but while no one’s looking, the Afghanis will again plant crops of opiate poppies because they make more money at far less effort in doing so.

Meanwhile, fools like Medea Benjamin will make apperances and talk about “raising people out of poverty” and get the Clinton Foundation to pay for a mud-hut here and there and a well and some books and fly in prescription medications from donated lots, but in the end, it’s not going to change the course for Afghanis. They’ve been living as they do for centuries and likely will continue to while Benjamin gets her fifteen minutes.

Lourdes on October 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM

Sounds like Private Benjamin is a war expert. What war college did she attend…Wars are Us?

yoda on October 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM

No, it’s “Pretend We’re Being Hurt by Law Enforcement and Military Men University”.

Benjamin’s got her act down, she plays for any camera with her ongoing “look what the mean man did to me” routine and as soon as the photos are taken, Benjamin’s laughing about the stupid people who fell for her routine.

Lourdes on October 7, 2009 at 8:26 PM

“Sensing a mob she could seize control of, Medea Benjamin positioned herself in front of a large group of children and rallied them to join her in a completely purposeless sit-down strike, which lasted all of ten minutes, and had no stated goals.”

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(Signs on Code Pink tent read: “Support the Iraqi Resistance!” and “Support U.S. deserters and mutineers!”)

“Supporting the deserters and mutineers seems to be a running theme. As was, in this case, supporting the enemy.
In another time and place, such sentiments would be considered treason, but hey — this is Berkeley! Treason is cool!”

Lourdes on October 7, 2009 at 8:44 PM