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October 29, 2009

Interview with Matthew Hoh

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JIM LEHRER: Next tonight, we continue our ongoing conversations on Afghanistan.

Tonight, it's with an official dissenter to U.S. policy.

Judy Woodruff is in charge.

JUDY WOODRUFF: After five months serving with the State Department in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest against American policies there.

In his September 10 letter of resignation, revealed this week in "The Washington Post," the former Marine captain said: "I fail to see the value or 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."

Hoh's resignation was greeted more in sorrow than in anger by the State Department. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke said --...

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