Fighting Three Wars-Squandering Billions & Americans Get Short Changed

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

The United States has earmarked $7.5 billion in aid over the next five years for Pakistan. In addition the United States has donated 350 million dollars to help Pakistan cope with floods. Can you imagine what all of those billions of dollars could do right here in the good ol' USA? Our own infrastructure: roads, bridges, schools, electric grids and 70 to 100 year pipes that have been under our cities that are worn out could use that $7.5 billion dollars. And floods? You bet! We have them often and they are severe. That 350 million dollars sent to Pakistan could have been put to very good use here in the United States.

People, these wars we are fighting are not going to change anything for us. The Obama administration tells us we are fighting two wars which are the Iraq and the Afghanistan conflicts but they don't tell you we are also engaged in a third war and that is the war with Pakistan. They like to keep that war hush, hush.

If you look very closely and listen to the administrations talking heads you can see by the continued deaths in Pakistan that are being caused by our U.S. unmanned drones along with the U.S. military covert operations and incursions into Pakistan territory that we do have a third war in progress.

That is also the real reason we are pouring money into Pakistan. Our government is buying off Pakistan by giving corrupt officials billions of dollars to silence Pakistani protests about our military and CIA conducting active military operations inside Pakistan.

These useless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan were brought about by our lawmakers so that they would not have to address our domestic problems here at home and be accountable to us citizens. When an administration cannot and will not take care of domestic matters in the country they start a war so as to change the subject(s) that are really facing the American people. This they did, while at the same time, allowing a select group of politicians the opportunity to pander and cater to corporations, banks and big oil which in turn gave them a chance to make billions of dollars for themselves as they cranked up the military war machine.

We are paying our taxpayer monies to corrupt leaders and politicians in these backwoods countries and it should stop. Bring each and every military person home. Immediately!

Take Afghanistan for example---: Look what they did to Russia over a ten year period. They slaughtered tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and caused Russia to take money from it's citizens and spend billions of dollars on equipment fighting the war. Russia had to leave the country because they could not get a grasp on any sort of victory. The irony is that we, the Unites States trained these uneducated and poverty stricken Afghan fighters to fight and provided them with the military weapons to force Russia out of their country.

That training and equipment that the USA provided these various warlords has come back to haunt us. For years now these warring clans, their families and children have been using our weapons and training skills to kill our military service men and women. No country and/or military machine has ever gone into Afghanistan and left claiming "victory" in any way shape or form.

Folks, these people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq do not want us there. They want us out of their countries. Their representatives and their people have been saying that for years.

These countries have been fighting among themselves for over 5000 years. That has been their way of life for centuries and they like it. They do not want to change their ways and they will not change their ways. Their cultural makeup and religious views are theirs and they want to keep them and follow them as they see fit.

It is not the United States job to force our way of life or our views on any other country or race in this world. We, the USA should not tell anybody else how to live or tell them how to change their beliefs or culture. We Americans have enough problems here at home to resolve.

Christ, in this country we cannot even stop neighbors from fighting one another in our cities or killing each other in our streets so what makes our arrogant lawmakers in the United States think they can stop other people in other countries from fighting between themselves.

My view: Take care of our own people first.Fix our own problems. Let these other countries fight it out among themselves like they have been doing for centuries and who ever comes out on top and into power is the person or faction we should deal with on a trust and verify basis.

Currently in the United States we have millions of children going to bed each night hungry because their parents cannot afford food; we have every child in this country getting short changed on a good education; we have millions of homeless people trying to find shelter to get through each night; the nation is on the brink of a financial melt-down; the American worker, especially the middle class person(s)cannot achieve the American dream and own a home due to the fact there are no jobs available. The foreclosure rates in the USA are dismal and we have millions of people in the USA not receiving proper health care. The health care is either poor or non-existent yet the United States sticks its nose and military might and taxpayer money(that runs into the billions of dollars) a year into other countries business trying to change their ways. Congress- we could use that money here.

Some question to ponder: Why do we take billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer monies and spend it on building schools, bridges, electric grids and waste and water plants, etc., in these other countries and continue to dump billions on trying to educate children in other countries? Why do we feed all of the children in these countries that we are invading while our children here at home are starving? It doesn't make sense. Take care of America's children and it's people first and then, and only then, if we have money left over and want to be charitable, so be it.-And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
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