Mr. Matthew Hoh's resignation (Washington Post, Oct. 27th) from the U.S. Foreign Service makes a statement important for all of us to hear and for President Barak Obama to act on. Mr. Hoh's resignation is not based "upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end." He is referring to the war in Afghanistan and his resignation is a protest based on his experience as a Marine Corps Captain in Iraq, the Pentagon, and at the State Department.

The administration was so upset with his resignation that he was offered at least two high profile jobs in the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Mr. Hoh says the U.S. is backing a corrupt and weak national government and for 8 years has been sending soldiers to die in a 35 year long civil war. The United States is seen by Afghani's as occupiers and the result is the growth of a so-called insurgency trying to defend their families, homes, villages, and valley's.

I believe there is no way to assure U.S. families of fallen soldiers nor this country as a whole that we have any business adding more troops, killing more civilians, spending billions more dollars, when there is no answer to the questions of "why" and "to what end"? Let's take the moral high ground and get out of Afghanistan, now. Let's have a foreign policy with more integrity and less blood.

Rev. Michael Poage