Obama orders troop increases, where's Code Pink

by Arthur Bruzzone, SF Politics Examiner

President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops for Afghanistan. Strange. No reaction from the rambunctious Code Pink.

Here's Code Pink's Mission Statement from their site:

Their home page makes no mention of the significant troop increase.

We've been here below. In 2003, a group of poets boycotted a White House conference in protest against the Iraq War. But the same poets had no problem with former President Clinton's deadly bombing of Serbia. No protests, no shouts, no protest.

Code Pink -- at least for now -- is taking the same path. Bush's Iraq War was a target of their wrath. Obama's quiet troop deployment goes unnoticed.

The new president didn't address the nation, didn't consult with our allies, didn't send out spokespersons to explain his move. I support the move. I don't support the stealth method in which it was enacted.

But Code Pink's response is as stealth. They should be raging mad. Instead, silence. Wars and military action by Democrat presidents don't seem to fit their protest criteria.. For now.