Why send our military to train other nations how to kill our own military? Why send weapons and money we don't have, or have to borrow from communist countries? Does this really make sense?

Why send our young men and women military personnel into foreign countries where they are not wanted? Our military is a volunteer military, which I do not feel is right. If you want to live and receive the benefits of America, then stand up and take some of the responsibility to defend these privileges.

The government is more than happy to send our young people to foreign lands to be slaughtered, but gives no thought to protecting our embassies. This attitude only depletes our military strength, which is what this government wants -- depletion, exhaustion, redeployed again and again. This is very depressing.

Then the government complains about how expensive the military is. Really, are the people as blind as in the 1930s? Yes, they are.

Lew Hiatt

Belleville