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Obama Is Making A Choice Now That Will Lead To The Deaths Of Many Thousands Of Civilians In Afghanistan By American Hands. By Ordinary Standards Of Presidents, He Is A Decent Man. But Those Standards Aren't Good Enough. He's In A Position Either To Kill Or Not To Kill, And He's Made The Decision To Kill.

Truth-telling To Congress And The Public Is Not Disloyal In America: It Is An Expression Of The Higher Loyalty Officials Owe To The Constitution, The Rule Of Law, And The Sovereign Public. It Is A Courageous, Patriotic, And Effective Way To Serve Our Country. The Time To Speak Out Is Now.

But It Is Important Always To Keep In Mind That The Danger Of Harming Humans Is Not Connected Only Or Even Mainly With Telling Secrets, There Can Be Great Danger In Keeping Secrets.

Those Of Us Who Finally Saw Through The Vietnam War Saw Through This War, And All The Actions That Were Necessary To End The Vietnam War Will Be Necessary Here. I Think The American People Will Get Us Out Of This War.

In My Estimation, There Has Not Been In American History A More Important Leak Than Edward Snowden's Release Of Nsa Material – And That Definitely Includes The Pentagon Papers 40 Years Ago.