http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/06/us/soldier-suicide-note/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Daniel Sommers, an Iraqi war veteran, who has taken his life recently highlights the dark side of the perpetual policing of the globe our country undertakes. Why are we still policing the world when good men like Mr.Sommers has their lives taken either in battle or by the post trauma that comes from being in the battlefield. We have spent 87.2 billion dollars in the past year on overseas expenditures enacted for the defense budget and billions of countless dollars on
"foreign aid" like giving tanks, bombs, and weapons to the Islamic extremists. When will the cost of life and dollars justify the imperialistic policies of the country? Why are we fighting to "promote democracy" when all it happens to be is a chance for transnational corporations to spread their business eggs? Why are we fighting for oil companies and defense contract companies? All I am doing is asking questions that every critical thinking person should be asking, and that is all. When will we the people have enough of the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us of nearly five decades ago?
-Kole Elyon
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