The Issue: America’s war in Afghanistan and the price we paid in lost lives over more than a decade.
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Our blood is being shed for people who hate our guts (“The Perfect Squirm,” Ralph Peters, PostOpinion, Jan. 20).
We need a third party that will bring common sense to government. Instead, we have the far right and far left in control. We don’t need the terrorists to kill our troops — warmongers like Sen. John McCain help to do that for us.
As for the notion that we’ll have to go back to Afghanistan if we leave, the domino theory, which was the argument to stay in Vietnam, proved, unfortunately, to be a total fabrication and lost thousands of lives for nothing. Afghanistan is not in our national interest and not one more drop of American blood should be shed for it.
Walter Sasiadek
Las Vegas
It’s great to have Peters back in The Post. This is the most succinct analysis of our debacle in Afghanistan. History repeats itself, to our shame and disgrace.
Lyndon Johnson’s war was in Vietnam; President Obama’s in pestilential Afghanistan. Both were fought for political gain, nothing more.
More nauseating still, today’s smarmy, leftist, sycophantic news media give this odious president a total pass on any criticism of his policies, yet they heaped the most dishonest criticism on George W. Bush, even inventing much of it for political advantage.
Thank you, Lt. Col. Peters, for a brilliant insight into one of the most shameful military policies in our history.
Rick Geyer
Bay Shore