G-8 WITHDRAWS FROM CHICAGO SUMMIT: THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA! NOW END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012 AT 3:11PMThe breaking news is that President Obama has pulled a very volatile meeting of the G-8 out of Chicago and relocated the event in the relative safety and secrecy of Camp David.
The NATO summit still is going forward, for now, in Chicago in late May, where thousands of protesters will assemble demanding the end of the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and possibly Iran. The summit represents an unnecessary show of NATO resolve at a time when the alliance, collapsing in Afghanistan, is on the verge of rushing to the exits. Obama has an opportunity to announce an accelerated withdrawal of US-NATO forces, an end to the drone attacks on Pakistan’s tribal regions, and a political-diplomatic settlement involving a consortium of powers with stakes in the region, Pakistan, China, India, Iran, Russia and Turkey.
Like Iraq before it, Afghanistan’s government is stubbornly insisting on sovereignty from an