Horton sounds like a little boy arguing with his mother about "the other kids get to so why can't I?", or who's crying that he wants candy, but the store is closed, covering his ears while mommy tries to reason with him, and stamping his foot saying, "I want what I want when I want it."
I would like those of you who have been in the street ALMOST EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST NINE YEARS, and those of you who've been arrested as many times as Medea Benjamin, for WHATEVER you believe in, to tell us what YOU think the US will really do in Afghanistan.

" Horton: Yeah, but I mean Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri escaped eight years ago. They haven’t been in Afghanistan for eight years. [Irrelevant straw man agument he knows is meaningless]
Benjamin: But you do have the Taliban in Afghanistan and you have...
Horton: Yeah, but what did the Taliban ever do? [WHAT!!!!?]
Benjamin: Well the Taliban…[Twice now he's cut off her answer ]
Horton: To us.
Benjamin: Huh?
Horton: What did they ever do to the United States?"
That's it, really. It's all about US.

I cannot believe this. Ms. Benjamin is merely, and correctly, pointing out some nuances of HOW the US should pull out, NOT whether, and she explicitly argues for curtailing what the troops do there AS WE EXIT - no buildup, no more $$ for military purposes. She's speaking, or trying to, about realities on the ground. How to get out, not whether to, and she never said anything that can be construed to be a defense of bombing or prolonging the occupation.

Horton on the other hand, is looking for a knee-jerk oversimplification, as if there were even the remotest chance in hell that the US would just abandon its pipeline dream, as well as Israel's demands if only Medea Benjamin would say to do so. Juvenile!!