Don't doubt that this resignation will be used to justify our cutting and running from our commitments in the Middle East, esp. Afghanistan. This is what the administration has been waiting for.

We have here a true American hero from the field of battle, who struggles with PTSD, who has finally decided that he doesn't need the pressure anymore... and... I salute him for his dedication and service... but... I am afraid this is going to be used as justification for our entire position strategy in Afghanistan... and that will be wrong... and evil.

It will be like he gave his life in the field of battle and service... to now be 'used' by our government looking for a way out... and I use the word 'used' in the sense of 'using' someone else's hurts for their personal benefit. I am saying that Matthew Hon will be used... taken advantage of.... without a thought for his personal well being... matter of fact... in the days ahead he will probably be hurt by this action even more... and they won't care.

Most people don't understand PTSD, but I do personally having struggled with it myself from Vietnam. I totally understand the emotions expressed in the entire story about the good marine below, if you read the whole story on the link.

PTSD is just as real a wound as any physical wound. This would be like holding up a marine with a severe and openly bleeding wound... showing that picture of the suffering marine... then using that to justify pulling our troops from the field of battle.

This would bring outrage, just like this story should bring outrage, esp. if this is used to forge a future direction to our military's efforts in Afghanistan.

Washington Post

U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting

When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan.

A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed.

But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency.

"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department's head of personnel. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end."

The reaction to Hoh's letter was immediate. Senior U.S. officials, concerned that they would lose an outstanding officer and perhaps gain a prominent critic, appealed to him to stay.

U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry brought him to Kabul and offered him a job on his senior embassy staff. Hoh declined. From there, he was flown home for a face-to-face meeting with Richard C. Holbrooke, the administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"We took his letter very seriously, because he was a good officer," Holbrooke said in an interview. "We all thought that given how serious his letter was, how much commitment there was, and his prior track record, we should pay close attention to him." ....

God Bless you Michael Hoh. I pray for your healing and salute your service to our country and the freedom of a desperately oppressed people and culture.

Semper Fi Sir!

xtnyoda, shalomed

full pdf text of the resignation letter below.
pdf resignation letter