Calling All Liberals! WDEL’s Feed A Friend Food Drive Needs You!
Al Mascitti is in the middle of WDEL’s annual Feed a Friend Food Drive which buys food for the Newark Area Welfare Committee, Sunday Breakfast Mission, The Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center. They’ve set this up so you buy food by the case, and $11.50 buys one case.
You know you all listen to Al in the morning, so call 302-478-WDEL to pledge for a case of food or two. Tell them that Delaware Liberal sent you. And apparently you can also pledge online too. All of these agencies that they are supporting do a pretty marvelous job.
Help feed some of your neighbors who need it this season.
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This sounds like a great event. Call if you can!
Just pledged online. Boy, that felt good!
I called to pledge and it sounds like they are busy which is really great!
anti war liberals? or ones that support a surge?
ahhhhhhhh, I kill me!
Sometimes, DV, issues are complicated, but if you have an answer for Afghanistan I’m all ears. I’ll admit I’m at a loss. I don’t like sending more troops, but I also don’t think we can simply pack up and leave. We created the mess (in two countries) don’t we have some responsibility in cleaning it up?
Like I said, it’s a complicated mess.
On the other hand, Feed a Friend is a no-brainer.
everyone also remember Preston and Steve’s WMMR CampOut for Hunger is still going strong… almost 2 tons of food donated worth an estimated 40K and rising. Contribute so they can continue to make fart noises and tattoo taints for charity.
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Thanks, Cassandra, for letting your readers know about this, and thanks to all of you who donated. We raised $2,695.50 during my show, and the drive continues through 4 p.m. (though if you want to donate after that, naturally we’ll accept it). All the money goes to New Castle County charities. I can vouch personally for both the Ministry of Caring and the Sunday Breakfast Mission — I’ve seen both programs up close, and it’s one of the reasons that, despite being a liberal, I’m in favor of faith-based charity.
I don’t like sending more troops, but I also don’t think we can simply pack up and leave
the but in that sentence perplexes me coming from you. I guess I have never gotten your POV on Iraq. Do you feel the same way there?
I’m sure you are educated on the people of Afghanistan? The culture there? The role the people feel a “government” has? How they feel about occupiers?
We could simply pack and leave. And, we should. we are only doing the dirty work for a very small country over there and at the same time trying to enrich and “protect” American interests.
War is wrong and we have no business blowing my tax dollars trying to prop up a fraudelent goverment. It won’t happen in 18 months. Obama knows it, we know it, yet here we are.
IMO, there’s a difference between Iraq and Afghanistan. I was silent when we went into Afghanistan because I was conflicted. I was not silent about invading Iraq. That said, one would be forgiven for taking my silence on Afghanistan as tacit support, and hindsight is twenty-twenty. But we’re there, and I don’t have a solution. Do you?
yes, I do have a solution. Leave.
That’s it? Leave? Why am I not surprised.
Forgive me if I am repeating myself, but here is my view: Afghanistan is about Pakistan, an unstable country, a safe harbor for terrorists of the al Qaeda type, fighting a civil war against Islamic extremists, and a major nuclear power. An unstable Pakistan represents a significant threat to our security, therefore we must act, as much as I dislike finding myself taking such a position.
Obama’s West Point speech was sparse on the details of the war, how his btw.
In his speech, Obama was not able to make these statements about Pakistan, as that would further inflame the extremists globally, so he framed it as a help Afghanistan effort, stroking us with a lot of frilly historical and American values stuff.
For the above reasons, we need a military position in the region, which we can have more easily next door in Afghanistan.
As I see it, Obama’s approach is to establish such a presence while simultaneously attempting to stabilize Afghanistan, help them establish their own security, and using a different approach, the McChrystal approach, attempt to appear less as occupiers and more as rebuilders.
PS: Following the Obama escalation, we will have over 200,000 Americans in Afghanistan, 100K military plus 100K so-called contractors.
PPS: In Pakistan, we have some special forces operating, as well as the CIA conducting their secret war, and, don’t forget the drones.
Complicated!
1 US soldier type for every 140 Afghans.