Today our country and Afghanistan signed an agreement that will allow 10,000 troops
to stay in that country until 2024 and beyond.
Someone you love or know or from your city will die because of our action.
This war will be discussed by your grandchildren when they become grandparents. This is
not like Japan or Korea . We are at war with an idea and monsters. I have no
desire to name all the groups who we will be fighting.
The idea of a limited war is an oxymoron. We should have a draft. Men and Women
should be drafted as soon as they turn 18. They should be drafted for 2 years and be discharged.
Almost 29 million people live in Saudi Arabia. About 75 million people live in Turkey.
It wont be tough to find millions more of folks who live in the area of Afghanistan.
I have no idea if existing American troops will be asked to go back again and
again. When Syria blows up more, Iraq falls apart, people who want us dead will crawl
out from every rock.
This extension should be headline news. The who idea of going to the middle east
was to capture the folks who caused 9-11-2001. We DID THAT. Osama Bin Laden
is dead. We should have left then. There are plenty of young people who live in the area to fight. Security in America means I had to take off my shoes, belt, and go
through a search to pay a parking ticket. How do you like flying these days?
Read the history of Afghanistan, read about the religious war in Iraq. Why must our
people keep having to die there?
This should matter to all of us. A lie cost over 4,000 people their lives in Iraq. Peace
will NEVER be achieved in that part of the world.
If we as a nation has decided to fight evil, send thousands to Africa. I can think of
other countries as well where evil riles.
While we spend money in Afghanistan, infra-structure keeps getting more obsolete
here. We can't afford to deal with many things that affect you and I. Hospitals, prisions,
and schools need to be built. mental health needs our attention.
If you keep doing the same thing, the same results will happen. We need to sit the middle east war out.Our soldiers need to come home and help fix our broken country.
-memory is the mother of all wisdom.
-Aeschylus