“Acknowledge the cost of freedom,” a Columbian editorial exhorts us (In Our View, May 25). It’s far past time for America to acknowledge that the wars after World War II had nothing to do with freedom. World War II was the last “righteous war,” a war where freedom really was at risk.
The attempt to legitimize war as freedom related is the smoke screen our political leaders hide behind. The soldier memorialized this weekend did his duty, he paid, our leaders did not.
What did Vietnam have to do with American’s freedom? Or Iraq? Or Afghanistan? What did the political blathering lies of presidents from 1950s till today have to do with freedom? The Domino Theory, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War on Terror? Vietnam, communist threat, I have their tires on my Ford.
The War on Terror doesn’t even have a place. Afghanistan, called The Graveyard of Empires. They march in, lose, they march out.
So, what is the “shared purpose” in all this? Next war let’s have the leaders on the front line. After all it is a shared purpose, right?
