AFGHANISTAN -WE SHOULDN'T BE THERE

THE DOCTOR IS IN
_________________
LAS VEGAS - Hello America, how's the world treating you?
Eight years in Afghanistan? We clearly don't need this war.
President Obama should call this war to an end and remove all of our troops immediately.

Doesn't politicians learn from the past? Russia fought Afghanistan for about ten years and the British tried to conquer Afghanistan.Both countries lost. We, the USA,supported the Afghans during the Russian conflict. We trained the Afghan fighters and gave weapons to them to use against the Russians. Now, those same Afghans are using that training and some of the same weapons against us.

We didn't need the Iraq war and we don't need this war. All we are doing is spending billions of dollars a month on this war and having the Afghanistan corrupt government take billions of our money for themselves and hide it in banks throughout the world for their own use. The USA's mission was to go into Afghanistan and capture Osama bin Laden. However,after thousands of American troop deaths and tens of thousands Afghan civilian deaths in Iraq and approximately 790 troop deaths and thousands of Afghan civilian deaths as of today we are still there with the administration statement that we have to bring a Democratic government to the Country. Why?

Let that country prop up itself. If Afghan forces cannot stand on it's own after eight years, they never will.

A billion dollars a month from the U.S. in Iraq and about the same money in Afghanistan is inappropriate. That money could be used here in the good ol' USA. That money could be used for our own infrastructure, schools, manufacturing, jobs, etc.

The money being squandered by our country on both of these unnecessary wars could support our own nation against terrorism here within our own borders and we would have billions left over.Protecting the USA against terrorism within our own borders should be the priority and the Administration's excuse that spending billions over there will stop Al-Qaida is a poor argument.The billions being spent on these unwarranted wars can be used to break up any terrorist activities being plotted here in this country.

President Obama should look to the past so it doesn't repeat itself. It appears that the lessons from Vietnam hasn't been learned by either the Bush or Obama Administrations.

Many Americans feel that the U.S. should let Afghanistan's war factions fighting among themselves settle their own differences. They have been fighting among themselves for centuries and they have their own culture and ways of handling their differences.The United States shouldn't attempt to bring our democracy to all of these different countries around the world telling their people that our way is best. One of my my views,-- if we are attacked here on our own soil we fight. But we don't start wars in other countries and occupy those countries and tell the world we are going to change that countries way of thinking.

America! America first. We should spend our dollars here in this country first improving our electrical grids,our bridges and roads. We should be taking care of our environment and education system and our borders and immigration system, just to name a few areas that require our immediate attention. Once we take care of our needs in this country, then we can give moderate amounts of money to other countries that promote peace. - And, that's my opinion.

Bradley Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
___________________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com