Site last updated: Thursday, April 25, 2024

Log In

Reset Password
MENU
Butler County's great daily newspaper

18 years later, we're still in Afghanistan

In Vietnam, the French were defeated by the North Vietnamese Communists. After a while, the U.S. decided that it would give aid to South Vietnam and then started sending thousands of troops to help defeat the Viet Cong.

The Defense Department fought a war they could not win as a result, 58,000 brave soldiers died for nothing.

Look ahead to Afghanistan.

The Russians with all their missiles and other weapons couldn’t defeat the Afghan Rebels. They withdrew and the U.S. decided to step in. Now don’t you think that our government would have enough sense to say the Russians couldn’t win in Afghanistan and the French couldn’t win in Vietnam. So let’s stay out of those God forsaken countries. Eighteen years later, we’re still in Afghanistan losing soldiers and the enemy isn’t budging.

This is 2020, and I thought we were supposed to be out of Iraq totally. George Bush got us in there with all of his lies and now Trump is escalating the problem and you can bet that a whole lot more troops will be deployed. Russia is one of the instigators in the Middle East.

They’re friends with Syria and help them kill civilians. But Putin is one of Trump’s best friends, so that means that there will be more murders and mayhem and Assad can sit in his office and do his dirty deeds. Damascus is the focal point of Syria so why isn’t it blown off the map along with murdering Assad.

One last item. All of the shootings and attacks against the Jewish community will continue to happen as long as there is a racist and anti-Semite in the White House, so when November, comes get out and vote, because we do not need four more years of Donald Trump and remember that our so-called representative Mike Kelly thinks Trump is the greatest.

More in Letters to the Editor

Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter

* indicates required
TODAY'S PHOTOS