Macho government living in fantasy
Reader C. Skeet assures us (March 13) there is no doubt the U.S. military can subdue Afghanistan even though no one else since Alexander the Great has been able to do so.
What a relief. It's so great to know that we will be able to conquer and occupy an impoverished, backward, crime-ridden hole and rule it as a colony.
I'm sure this will be worth the billions of dollars and thousands of lives it has cost.
We Americans are cursed with a government of macho thugs absolutely pickled in fantasies of power and domination.
They really think they can rule the world, and they are more than ready to bankrupt our economy, tear up the Constitution and destroy our children's future in the attempt to do so.
Our survival as a civilized society will depend on our ability in November to ignore the mud-slinging and slander and focus on the fact that the "victories" these Republicans offer us are worthless and the price we pay tantamount to national suicide. Let's throw the bums out!
Anthony Nelson
Rolling Meadows