While the news is filled with reports from Iraq and the death tolls there, news from Afghanistan is beginning to be nearly as bad. Recent reports of an attack on suspected al-Quaida militants by coalition forces did manage to kill seven children without any apparent damage to the insurgents. How much longer will we as Americans continue to support this sort of action in our names? How many innocent women and children must die before we recognize the futility of our actions in both Iraq and Afghanistan?
One could argue that we are fighting a war on terror. In that instance the facts show an opposite reaction. Terrorist attacks are on the rise throughout the world. Would we not be better as a nation and as a leader of the world acting to benefit world economics and undermining the terrorist base? Our ongoing military presence around the world offers too many convenient targets for terrorist organizations. The time has come to bring our troops home and to invest in our own nation. We can offer economic and infrastructure support around the world without being an aggressor any longer. There are no more children left to lose.
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