Rethink Afghanistan at SUNY Brockport

Host:
Students for Peace and Justicel
Date:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time:
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
The College at Brockport, SUNY
Street:
Edwards Hall, Room 104
City/Town:
Brockport, NY

Host:
Students for Peace and Justicel
Date:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time:
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
The College at Brockport, SUNY
Street:
Edwards Hall, Room 104
City/Town:
Brockport, NY

Description
Please join us for a screening of the film with discussion following led by economist, filmaker and activist Mara Ahmed

From the Producers:
"This war has been called a quagmire. It has been compared–by everyone from Brave New Films bloggers to Newsweek to Senator John Kerry–to the unwinnable war in Vietnam. And public support has begun to wane; a recent BBC/Harris poll indicated only 1/3 of Americans favor sending additional troops to Afghanistan. Perhaps that is because we are already war-weary after being misled into Iraq. Perhaps we are grasping the terrible casualty rate, considering 2008 was the bloodiest year of this war to date, both for our soldiers and Afghan civilians. Maybe we are beginning to connect the dots between the staggering costs of this war ($36 billion a year) and the inability to pull our country out of a recession that resulted in 2.3 million people facing foreclosure last year, and employment falling by 1.9 million in the last four months of 2008 alone.

Whatever the case, it is clear we must have informed public consensus before escalating this war. We must debate it online and in Congress until we’re blue in the face. We must rethink Afghanistan before committing more lives and dollars to a war without a discernible end game".