Matthew Hoh, ex-Marine Iraq combat officer, important official in US Afghanistan effort, resigns

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and read the letter.

Matthew Hoh is a former US Marine combat officer in Iraq, and a high-ranking and praised civilian official for the US civil initiative in Afghanistan. Hoh just resigned from his field position in rural Afghanistan with the US State Department, with the above letter explaining his reasons.

Here's a long, well-dimensioned Washington Post story by Karen DeYoung about Hoh's journey, as a Marine and a State Department official specializing in civil engineering, to his final decision to end his participation with the American civil-military program in Afghanistan.