Good evening from Afghanistan.
We are sorry we cannot be with you in body, know we are with you in spirit.
What you are doing in Freedom Square is critically important, not only for Afghanistan, and America but for the entire world.
After 5 days in Afghanistan, one thing is painfully clear. The impetus for change needs to come from Washington DC. Our job is clear, we must continue to demand an end to occupation and war from our government. The status quo is unacceptable.
10 years of occupation and things are getting worse. The Red Cross has said that the security situation in Afghanistan is the worst it has been in 30 years.
In 10 years of occupation, and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, not a single public hospital has been built for the people of Afghanistan. The only things that have been built in Afghanistan are security barriers and prisons.
UNICEF has claimed that Afghanistan is the worst place in the world for children. 65% of the population is children.
The question must be this: If after 10 years, countless lives lost, hundreds of billions spent, nothing is going right in Afghanistan, when is it time to change direction? This is the question the people of Freedom Square must help our government answer.
