NATURECOAST COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
THE TAMPA TRIBUNE
Letter of the day: Where are the military voices of caution on U.S. role in Afghanistan?
Newspaper Print Title: "Generals Chart Risky Course"
Recent articles on the 200 military planners from 30 nations who met at MacDill Air Force Base to plot the Islamic State’s demise 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 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, Americans now read of President Obama extending the U.S. role in Afghanistan by secret order, giving U.S. troops a direct role in fighting for another year despite Obama’s assurances previously that the U.S. military would have no combat role in Afghanistan next year, other than training. The beheading of American aid workers and other Europeans by militants is not a declaration of war on the United States, but ferocious acts of inhumanity done out of anger and frustration toward a common and familiar enemy, America. We invade their countries, violate their sovereignty, sometimes depose their presidents, and impose our culture and political and military power on their peoples and systems of government. Need we again and again remind the American generals about Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are the military voices of caution or even opposition to this new IS war? Must we citizens continue to shoulder that burden?
Brian P. Moore
Spring Hill
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