August will mark the twentieth anniversary of our country going to war in the Middle East. Since 1990 our country has been preparing for war, fighting battles, enforcing no-fly zones, protecting people from ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and watching of our towers fall in New York City. For the past nine years we have fought a war in Afghanistan to remove terrorist from their training grounds and push them into Pakistan and converted the war to a tribal factor that we once supported. We removed a dictator from his authoritarian position and put ourselves into the position of rebuilding a nation. We watch our soldiers in the field, hobbled by current rules of engagement and watch them return home in flag draped coffins all for the sake of our freedom and security. I, like many others, am tired of war and I’m tired of watching other nations being rebuilt on our borrowed dollars while our country slowly divides itself under the stress of debt and unemployment.
So do you feel more secure now than you did twenty years ago, ten years or just five years ago? Have our actions in the Middle East made it a better place to live or is it just as dangerous as it was twenty years ago when we started our escapade? How much longer can our country afford to pursue our military conquest in the region before we tear our country apart with debt and division?
The twentieth anniversary of going to war is nothing to be proud of nor disgraced over. I like many others have been part of the battles to preserve our freedom and liberties. I call upon on our nation’s leadership to bring an end to the hostilities in the Middle East, bring our service members home to heal and prepare for future battles that are sure to come from those that despise us for our way of life.
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