Jim Fine, Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), discusses the effort to add an exit strategy and withdrawal deadline to the Afghanistan supplemental spending bill in the Senate, the US push for Iran sanctions despite broad agreement they won't work, Hillary Clinton's tough talk on Pakistan and Gen. McChrystal's admission that nearly nine years of US occupation has only produced a draw in Afghanistan.
10/21/08 – Jim Fine – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Fine, Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation's Iraq Peace Campaign, discusses the pacifism of the Quaker faith, the defeat of the Iranian war resolution in Congress, the exaggerated Iranian threat, the need for global nuclear disarmament and to negotiations with adversaries, Ahmadinejad's admission of the 2003 negotiations that the U.S. backed out of, Bush's signing statements immunizing him from obeying the law stopping permanent...