Mr. Obama, Drop the White Man's Burden

Ray McGovern asks us to remember "all those young people from our country’s inner cities and small towns who form the pool for the de facto poverty draft that provides the bulk of U.S. troops sent off to bear the present-day White Man’s Burden" — Kipling Haunts Obama’s Afghan WarKipling Haunts Obama’s Afghan War. Mr. McGovern concludes, "You may be in a position to help give the President the wherewithal to resist pressure to escalate the war in Afghanistan."