Taken from CNN:
To the Editor:
As a journalist, I spent time with the mujahedeen in the mountains of Afghanistan during their war against the Soviet Union. These are an ancient people filled with a wisdom that most Westerners will never understand.
We have no right to be in their country. It is naïve to believe they will ever welcome or appreciate our presence. And now the burning of the Koran and a massacre.
It’s time to leave. Let us bring our soldiers home and help them heal. Let us learn a lesson as a nation, lessen our hubris, expand our global awareness, get over our self-centeredness and cease our aggressions.
BRAD WILLIS
Coronado, Calif., March 13, 2012
To the Editor:
It has been said that “the first casualty of war is truth.” In fact, as demonstrated by our soldiers burning the Koran, urinating on the dead and massacring innocent civilians, another casualty of war is the humanity of “the enemy.”
Most humans can kill another person only when we have turned him into “the other” — an animal, a monster, a nonperson. These events are the awful but predictable consequences of war.
We need to help our returning veterans heal from this horrific experience. As a person opposed to war but an American citizen, I feel a moral duty to support full funding for veterans’ programs.
TIM IGLESIAS
Oakland, Calif., March 13, 2012
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