It's Not The Pentagon Papers

But Matthew Hoh's resignation from the State Department has the potential of having the same impact. I've never seen so many comments to a Post article.

Hoh is an ex-Marine who served in Iraq twice. In March he went to Afghanistan as a Foreign Service Officer. It seems that whether he was a marine or foreign service officer he did an outstanding job. Read his resignation letter and you may understand why I feel this way.

Here are some excerpts from Hoh's resignation letter:

I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditure of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war.

Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging and ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people.

the bulk of the insurgency fights not for the white banner of the Taliban, but rather against the presence of foreign soldiers and taxes imposed by an unrepresentative government in Kabul.

The United States military presence in Afghanistan greatly contributes to the legitimacy and strategic message of the Pashtun insurgency.

I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan.

Finally, if our concern is for a failed state... then we must reevaluate and increase our commitment to and involvement in Mexico.