On Tuesday, December 1st, President Obama called for a serious escalation of the war in Afghanistan, 30,000 more U.S. troops. The additional cost will be at least 30 billion dollars a year, probably more.  More important is the destruction and death it will cause in Afghanistan. It will also mean more U.S. casualties, more PTSD, etc. This escalation is totally immoral and wrong and is not a step towards withdrawal as Obama  claimed. We should call not only for no more troops to be sent to Afghanistan but for a total and speedy withdrawal of the 68,000 U.S. troops there. The U.S. escalation is a good time for us to do a powerful  anti-war action. From every poll, the majority of the people of the U.S. oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan. It is time for a well organized, thought out and dramatic anti-war action.  and links the war to economic problems at home such as cutbacks in the state budget, unemployment, etc. Let us do some effective reaching out. In solidarity, Peter Bohmer my new web-page: http://blogs.evergreen.edu/bohmerp