Get out of Afghanistan before another life is lost

Letter to the Editor
Palm Beach Post
By: Hank Goodman, Boynton Beach

Get out of Afghanistan before another life is lost
I'm furious! Another four Americans killed over a book. We now total over 1,900 deaths, plus who knows how many injured servicemen and women. They are not heroes, just sacrificial lambs.

Why are we there? To ferret out Al-Qaeda? Drone baby, drone. Get the troops out now. Every American life is precious, not to be wasted on a country that is still mired in the 10th century and controlled by Islamic fanatics.

The White House says we will stay the course to give the Afghans a better life. The military says we are making progress. Hogwash.

They offer the world nothing but poppy seeds. It is bad enough that we are involved with so many Arab countries that hate us but happily take our money. Apologies are not an option. War is hell, not a board game.

Mr. Goodman is spot on. It is difficult to read about the incident of burning "holy" books that has caused the deaths of 4 of our American troops. Now this crazy and insane government wants the 5 troops responsible for the burning to go on public trial in a land that has not emerged from, as Mr. Goodman puts it, the 10th Century.

There has been no accounting for the over 75 billion we have given to Afghanistan and no results. It is still and always will be, a barbaric nation full of religious fanatics. It is time to give them their final kiss goodbye. No more American lives lost. No more of our precious Treasury wasted on a corrupt and backward Muslim nation. No more apologies from the Whitehouse.