Brian's Anti-War Letter Also Published in Tampa Bay Times

U.S. mulls new ISIS war front | Dec. 2

Wars without end

The Obama administration's consideration of a new air war front to create a safe zone in Syria is another demonstration of America's blindness to its own complicity in creating Islamic hatred toward our nation in the first place.

Here we go again, rattling the saber, initiating a new and larger war in the Middle East, and this time it is toward another one of the beasts America created in the first place.

On top of that, President Barack Obama is extending the U.S. role in Afghanistan by giving American troops a direct role in fighting for another year despite his previous assurances that the U.S. military would have no combat role in Afghanistan next year other than training.

The beheadings of American aid workers and other Europeans by militants are not declarations of war on the United States but ferocious acts of inhumanity done out of anger and frustration toward a common and familiar enemy: America.

Need we again remind the American generals about Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are the military voices of caution or even opposition to this new war? Must we citizens continue to shoulder that burden?

Brian Moore, Spring Hill

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