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Keep our troops for homeland security
Published on Wed, Aug 4, 2010Read More Letters
We have more troops and war equipment scattered around the world than the rest of the world combined. Doesn’t that leave the United States vulnerable? Who is left here on our soil to guard our homeland?
Who is left here to guard the farmer’s chicken house from wild animals (terrorists) if he goes off to another country or, in the olden days, if the king sent his guards on a mission, who is left to guard the king and his castle?
We not only leave our country vulnerable, but we keep going to places like Vietnam, that according to the then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who was the mastermind of that war, admitted that it was a mistake.
That mistake took the lives of about 60,000 of our young soldiers to say nothing about the innocent men, women and children in that country and thousands of our troops that came home severely damaged, physically and mentally.
Are we doing the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan? I think so!
With all of our modern war equipment, we can go almost anywhere in he world in minutes if we need to. Isn’t it time that we stop chasing the elusive rabbit that keeps hiding in the foxholes?
Anders F. Jacobsen
Everett
Who is left here to guard the farmer’s chicken house from wild animals (terrorists) if he goes off to another country or, in the olden days, if the king sent his guards on a mission, who is left to guard the king and his castle?
We not only leave our country vulnerable, but we keep going to places like Vietnam, that according to the then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who was the mastermind of that war, admitted that it was a mistake.
That mistake took the lives of about 60,000 of our young soldiers to say nothing about the innocent men, women and children in that country and thousands of our troops that came home severely damaged, physically and mentally.
Are we doing the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan? I think so!
With all of our modern war equipment, we can go almost anywhere in he world in minutes if we need to. Isn’t it time that we stop chasing the elusive rabbit that keeps hiding in the foxholes?
Anders F. Jacobsen
Everett