Letters to the Editor
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What the military is not for
The military are not a load of "nation builders". They are a force to destroy anyone who attacks the United States. Trying to use the military like a police force is never a good idea and this article demonstrates at least one of the reasons why. In that sense, Iraq is much worse than Vietnam where we did have an enemy to fight. In Iraq, there are only the two sides of a sectarian civil war who mostly attack us only because we're there and attacking them.
It is long past time to get out. Many predict that the violence will increase. That's only an opinion, not an established fact. I personally think that it will decrease because I think the violence is exacerbated by our presence. However comma regardless of the resultant level of violence, only the Iraqi's can sort Iraq out. I have immense sympathy for the unfortunate Iraqi's upon whom we have visited this horror. I can only conclude, since I know that The Current Occupant sleeps like a baby, that he lacks any kind of conscious.
Also, as a six year Air Force veteran during Vietnam, I retain a tremendous respect for our military. I think they are the finest in the world. However, the United States is trying to use a hammer instead of a screwdriver to dislodge a screw. The military is the hammer. That is not a task for which they have been trained and, equally unfortunately, if the hammer succeeded in dislodging the screw, the structure it held would be destroyed.