There has never been a protest movement like this before. CIA agents, military leaders, not protesters who believe the left can show America it can win this war. Now Matthew Hoh has quit the Foreign Service and his reasons why have been leaked. Maybe, maybe someone will listen before it's too late. Thank you for your service Mr. Hoh. Thank you for the courage it took for you to do this.
U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting
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."