Tommy Sowers- End the conventional war in Afghanistan.

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Move Elite Troops Into Pakistan: Ex-Green Beret Politico
By Noah Shachtman October 14, 2010 | 7:00 am |


End the conventional war in Afghanistan. Free up Special Forces to hunt terrorists in Pakistan — and maybe in Yemen and Somalia, too. Get Iraq to pay for its own defense. Rein in the President’s broad powers in wartime.

Those are just a few of the controversial positions taken by Tommy Sowers, a former Green Beret waging a longshot campaign to unseat an entrenched, rural Red State Republican congresswoman in this Republican-friendly year.

Running as a Democrat in Rush Limbaugh’s hometown isn’t the first unorthodox move Sowers has made. Back in 2008, Sowers — then a West Point professor — took cadets to Dharmsala, India, and spent time with the Dalai Lama. Later, he made the even-odder move of inviting me to speak to some of his students.

Sowers and I spoke by phone last week — part of our week-long series on the new Congress.

An edited transcript follows.

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