Afghanistan
Resolution submitted at the 2008 VFP National Convention
Whereas when the United States
invaded the sovereign nation of Afghanistan, the only threats to our
nation existing there were non-indigenous groups whom we ourselves had
fostered and fed, and
Whereas history elsewhere, and almost seven years of struggles in
Afghanistan and Iraq, have shown us that military force is not an
effective solution to terrorist threats, and
Whereas our invasion has thrown Afghanistan and the region into
political turmoil, diminishing the existing governments' capability to
deal with these threats with effective political and police methods,
and
Whereas our wanton use of force and violence against the people of
Afghanistan has inflamed world opinion against the United States and
has diminished our nation's ability to work toward world peace and our
own security by non-violent means.
Therefore Be It Resolved Veterans For Peace calls on the government of the United States to
immediately withdraw all military and intelligence forces from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace calls on the government
of the United States to provide humanitarian aid
directly to the people of Afghanistan, in non-coercive forms, to help
the Afghan people rebuild their own nation and their lives in
cooperation with other nations in the region; and to allow the people
of Afghanistan to freely determine their own government without
interference by the US.
Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace renounces the claim that the war in Afghanistan is somehow the
"right" war and reaffirm our position that war must be abolished.
Approved at the 2008 VFP national convention