Trib editorial calls for more doomed, perpetual war

The Trib's July 8 editorial 'Why Obama can't leave Afghanistan' makes no case for maintaining the longest war in American history. You discredit your plea for more war in the first sentence when you accurately state Afghanistan has been at war for centuries, beginning with the reign of Alexander the Great, and that "war has been a way of life in Afghanistan." After 15 years of US failure there, what makes you think we can change that? Without one iota of evidence that the civil war in Afghanistan represents an existential threat to our Homeland, you frivolously call for indefinite warfare that has buried 3,509 US and coalition soldiers, and a trillion dollars of badly needed resources to rebuild America. You are unintentionally hilarious when you posit "some Americans will wince at that decision." No dear sirs and madams, it will make the millions of us peace loving Americans cry, contemplating the utter waste you encourage while America crumbles and the needy go without. And how dare you claim "Obama’s Iraq experience showed him what can happen when U.S. troops pull out en masse and leave poorly trained, poorly equipped local security forces to safeguard citizens." Iraq was largely destroyed as a functioning country from the criminal 2003 US invasion which you championed and have never apologized for enabling. We peaceniks know how difficult it is for a media giant like to Trib to toss out 15 years of warmongering and admit the truth of the colossal and deadly failures of Afghanistan and Iraq . But there is no better time than now for the Trib Board to help steer the US Titanic "Perpetual War" around so the next generation of Trib editorial writers can start with fresh and peaceful slate.