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Stop wasting U.S. lives and its treasure in Afghanistan

July 17, 2017 12:00 am • Last Updated: July 17, 2017 5:20 pm

With our country stuck in a 16 year-old war, a short article, “Mattis blames Congress for poor state of US combat readiness,” (June 14), says the Pentagon is under fire for delays in formulating new Afghanistan war plans.

We don’t need any more plans. What we need is to get all our troops out of there and bring them home. Both Presidents Bush and Obama promised to bring all our troops home, but never did.

Now we have a new president, and he is leaning on his golf stick thinking things over. So to all the people who are paying their taxes to keep this war going, write your president, senators and representatives and implore them to bring this war to an end. It’s your money they are spending and you are getting absolutely nothing for it.

World War II lasted about four years. This war has been going on 16 years. Don’t you smell a rat?

Don Beck

Ledyard

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