Afghanistan: Resignation Letter of US Official Matthew Hoh

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This story will be huge in US press today, complementing and maybe overshadowing President Obama's "I Will Not Rush a Decision" speech; it is already Page 1 in The Washington Post. Matthew Hoh, a former Marine Corps Captain and contractor in post-Saddam Iraq, resigned as political officer at the US Embassy in Kabul with a hard-hitting, incisive four-page letter. Despite attempts led by Obama envoy Richard Holbrooke to convince him to stay, Hoh decided that he had to stand behind his message: "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war."

Matthew Hoh first US official to resign over Afghan War