The silly season is over, almost. time to get serious about healthcare, not warfare. Time to get a real reason for wasting Obama's Presidency on Afghanistan, or say Whoa! Let's Get out of Kabul and let the Kabulians run things themselves.
We're not all in this war together; not by a long shot -- Dick Feagler
by Dick Feagler
Sunday September 06, 2009, 4:38 AM
On Pearl Harbor night, nearly 70 years ago, my parents bundled me into the car and we drove over to the Yermans' house. The next day, the president announced that we were at war. And he meant it. Because then, when you said war, you were serious. The kind of war that war was -- we were all in it.
War is our big export item. We go to Wal-Mart for cheap imports and export our kids to fight other peoples' wars. So why are we fighting in Afghanistan, a rocky, barren country that has defeated all invaders from Genghis Khan through the Russians? Now it's our turn? It is generally conceded we never should have gone to Iraq. Nobody has answered the question, "What's our purpose in Afghanistan?" How come everyone is watching "American Idol"? How come no one is asking, "Dontcha know there's a war on?"
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