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Editor:  

Over the last two months, I’ve been watching a lot of news, and I’m left stupefied. The people who report the news are either wonderful actors, or they actually believe that the war in Afghanistan can end the threat of terror. This must be either inconceivable gullibility, or cynical deception. Terrorists are not confined to Afghanistan, and they don’t have to sit around waiting for Osama bin Laden to send them instructions in order to act, therefore, what are we doing in Afghanistan? We are spending millions of dollars a day, and we tax-payers are going to pay the bills, so what exactly are we trying to accomplish with this expensive destruction? The most disturbing element, to me, is that the intelligentsia seems to be helping to create the delusion that we can stop terrorism by killing a man in an Afghan cave and deposing the Taliban. Can the great journalists of our country really be so naive? I don’t think so. It’s time to muster our outrage against this insanity now before we’ve bombed or starved millions of extremely poor people to death. 

Lance Caselman 

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