More or Less Soldiers

Will we ever hear the end of Afghanistan and Iraq? There has been so much talk about pulling the troops who are there out… slowly and there is also talk about sending more troops in. And President Obama is deciding on sending more troops over... whatever. Make up your mind people because this has gone on for far too long.

Almost every single day there is news about how at least one of our solders has died. That is just not something I would like to hear every day. Over 4,000 United States soldiers have died in the war against terrorism. And this whole mess started as the result of 2,751 people dying from the September 11, 2001 attacks. I find it rather sad that the number of casualties on the war against terrorism has surpassed that of September 11.

For those people who goes off thinking “oh that’s not bad compared to over wars.” Think about this; yes there are other wars that have resulted in greater casualties like the Vietnam War but they all share one common factor and that’s someone had died. I don’t care of one person has died, it is still a death. This person is in the ground, dead, for us, as we carry on with a daily lives debating if we should send more person over there.

It is pretty obvious how I feel about sending more troops over to Afghanistan or Iraq. I feel that it was wonderful that we stood up for ourselves in the September 11th attacks and sent out troops over there to do some damage. What I don’t agree with was that after spending millions of dollar on the troops and the war, we decided to spend millions more on rebuilding what we destroyed.

Our window to do great goods in this war has long seen been closed. It is time to get out troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan because there really is nothing else that we can do. It is up to their nation to do whatever they want and that does not involve us.