Letter: Why does America get involved in all wars?

Irwin Zuckerbrod, Port St. Lucie

Letter: Why does America get involved in all wars?

This is my opinion of the war in Syria. I just don't understand why the United States wants to send our young soldiers to fight in foreign countries, like Iran and Afghanistan. It's just not worth having our young soldiers coming back dead or wounded. I do not see Russian or China sending soldiers there to fight. All they do is send Syria material to fight the war with, but never their soldiers.

I wish that this country would send weapons but not men and women to fight their wars and bring all out youngsters home from war zones.


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KaptainKen writes:

Re: " ... send weapons but not (soldiers)." Well, we tried that and it didn't work out so well. The U.S. supplied modern weapons to the Afghan Mujahideen in their war against the Soviet Union 1979 - 1989. This was considered a good thing at the time.

These people became the Afghan Talaban and evenutually took over the country. Later they provided a safe-haven and bases for Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. Al-Qaeda are the people responsible for the 9/11 and many other terrorist attacks worldwide.

The bottom line, however, is the fact that 40% of all the money spent on weapons of all types is spent by the United States. That gives us a very big "hammer" if you will. As the saying goes, "When the only tool you have in your tool box is a hammer, you look at everything as if it's a nail."
