[Kzyxtalk] Matthew Hoh to Discuss the President's Authorization for War with Islamic State -- on KMEC Radio, Monday, February 16, at PM, Pacific Time (correction)

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"All About Money" returns to KMEC Radio on Monday, February 16, at 1:00 PM, Pacific Time, with host, John Sakowicz, and guest, Matthew Hoh. Hoh is presently a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. We'll discuss President Obama’s request for authorization for war with the Islamic State. 

KMEC Radio, your community radio, is heard at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream live from the web at www.kmecdradio.org 

Our shows are archived. 

Matthew Hoh is a former USMC officer who served with distinction in Afghanistan and later served in U.S. State Department reconstruction effort in Afghanistan before resigning and becoming the Department's top whistleblower on billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and corruption in Afghanistan. He is now opposed to the U.S. being involved militarily in the civil wars in Iraq and Syria. He predicts the same results as previous U.S. interventions: escalation of the wars, mass suffering of the Iraqi and Syrian people, and a waste of American lives and treasury. 

Matthew Hoh further argues that despite the Administration’s claims, Obama's authorization is not limited; it simply pushes the decision for the US to remain at war in Iraq and Syria to the next president, and it allows for ground troops -- not just “enduring” ground troops, an incredibly subjective description. The war powers authorization offers no path to peace and reconciliation in Iraq and Syria, just the promise of Americans killing and dying in the middle of two civil wars. 

Hoh states that in its coda the authorization does repeal the 2002 authorization for President Bush to invade Iraq, which is the genesis of these wars and of the Islamic State, but rather than serving as a cautionary historical blunder to protect our leaders from repeating a tragedy, it simply is written as a preceding and outdated legal necessity. 

For reference, below please find a few of Matthew Hoh's writings from the last year, as well as two television interviews detailing his opposition to US war in Iraq and Syria. Also below, please find Hoh's biography. 


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-hoh/with-american-help-iraqs-_b_5989530.html 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-hoh/isis-beheadings_b_5766542.html 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-hoh/bombs-are-medication-for-guilt_b_5513670.html 

Full Show: America’s New War in the Middle East | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com 

"This is Crazy": Ex-State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh Blasts Obama’s Doubling of U.S. Troops in Iraq 



BIO FOR MATTHEW HOH 

Matthew Hoh is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and is the former Director of the Afghanistan Study Group, a network of foreign and public policy experts and professionals advocating for a change in US strategy in Afghanistan. A former State Department official, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over US strategic policy and goals in Afghanistan in September 2009. 

Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew served in Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. 

When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. 

Hoh's writings have appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Politico, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. The Council on Foreign Relations has cited Matthew’s resignation letter from his post in Afghanistan as an Essential Document. 

In 2010, Matthew Hoh was named the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for Council for a Livable World, is an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts (ExposeFacts.org) and is an International Advisory Board Member for Veterans for Peace. He writes on issues of war, peace and post-traumatic stress disorder recovery at www.MatthewHoh.com. 



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