In a county with a history of sending buffoons to congress, Dana Rohrabacher is fast earning his way to the top of the embarrassing heap.
Rohrabacher, the politician who avoided Vietnam War era military service, continues to pretend he's an expert on the war in Afghanistan.
His absurd act continued today in the Washington Post.
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He argued that American troops cannot win in Aghanistan.
“We will not succeed, and America will eventually be weakened by loss of lives and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars,” he told Post reporter Perry Bacon. “What works in Afghanistan is what has worked in Afghanistan: Let the Afghans pay the price. Let them do the fighting.”
Whether Rohrabacher's latest assertion is correct isn't my point. In 2004, during the administration of Republican President George W. Bush, he wholeheartedly supported the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan. In fact, while Bush was in office, he congratulated the president for having “done a great job” there and happily–if erroneously–declared, “We have seen the Taliban and al Qaeda driven out of Afghanistan . . .”
At another point in 2004, he said Bush's Afghanistan military strategy was “magnificent.”
Now that President Barack Obama basically has adopted Bush's strategy of engagement in that country Rohrabacher has “emphatically” determined it's wrong.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
