Letters to the Editor
Gekkotypezero
Published Letters: 2
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A Lost Cause
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In my opinion any excuse for this war. Is just an excuse. When this war 1st started is was thought that it was just President Bush's way of finishing what his fathter had started. To remove that suspicion, they had made up another excuse in saying that this war was purely on terrroism(As if you can fight what you can't see. I mean if it was that easy, they would have gotten rid of all the gangs in the U.S by now.) Then when that got old and the people wanted a new reason for the prolonging of the war, there excuse was "We're running out of oil...the Afgans and Iraqis are withholding it from us".
So we spend trillions of dollars on a war we can't win. Its not like we're gonna make that money back. Well not true, they can always raise our taxes like they always do. I mean its not like the war is gonna pay for itself. How could it? I mean we just gave Palenstine a shit load of money and a bunch of our jet fighters(Which was a bad idea) and no one is gonna pay us back any of the money they owe us.
We could look and actually use other alternatives to fuel, but do you honestly think people will give up something as simple and expensive to use as oil. Of course not. Especially since the people are being backed by oil companies who will constanstly buy out and remove any new plans that are alternatives to fuel before the media gets word of it.
There are no pros to this war. We're in debt, half the world hates us and thousands of soldiers have just died in vain. Its time for us to pull out of this war and recover from our own near demise.
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Money Making
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, there is a part in every war where people(owners of fortune 500 companies and any other companies that sell to the military) make money. Stocks go up, so companies profit from that. As well as whatever they sell to the military to help support, even prolong the war. This goes for all counrties. So if you lose 20 million people in a war. Would that halt what money you would make. Not at all. Those 20 million buyers that you lost, you can easily make up buy extending your reach to other countries. So whats 20 million to them. In turn your government makes money from the taxes they collect from your company. So the everyday person will suffer, but not the rich. Like they say, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
As far as that example, im going by your 20 million death count of Russians in WWll and incorperating it to modern times.