I was already prepared to endorse Rob Simmons in the Republican primary for Governor, based not only on his record as a moderate, pro-choice Republican congressman, despite his unfortunate and discontinued dalliance with the Tea Partiers, but also on the total lack of qualifications of his opponents.
But now he has sealed the deal, advocating for an almost complete withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan:
Video is from Paul Bass, New Haven Independent, a great on-line newspaper which I read every day.
What courage, what common sense, what integrity! Honestly, if he wins the primary I will be in a real quandary in the general election – that’s how important this issue is to me.
All in all, the US’ withdrawal from South-East Asia resulted in the killing of an estimated 165,000 South Vietnamese in so-called re-education camps; the mass exodus of one million boat people, a quarter of whom died at sea; the mass murder, estimated at 100,000, of Laos’s Hmong people; and the killing of somewhere between one million and two million Cambodians.
Wall Street Journal – Bret Stephens – Jul 26, 2010