Sunday morning, before dawn, I read in the New York Times that “the
Pentagon is planning to add more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan”
within the next 18 months — “raising American force levels to about
58,000″ in that country.” Then I scraped ice off a windshield and drove
to the C-SPAN studios, where a picture window showed a serene daybreak
over the Capitol dome.
While I was on C-SPAN’s “Washington
Journal” for a live interview, the program aired some rarely seen
footage with the voices of two courageous politicians who challenged
the warfare state…
Read the full column.