“No blood for oil” is the slogan that I read on bumper stickers and hear in nearly every debate concerning Iraq, and I agree. Our troops should not be dying for oil, and thankfully they are not. Our troops have fought in order to remove a bloodthirsty dictator whose regime routinely tortured, raped and murdered its citizens. Our troops are fighting to protect the lives of the innocent – Iraqi, Afghani and American alike.
The fact of the matter is that America is engaged in a global war against terrorists who fundamentally hate us, and Iraq and Afghanistan are the front lines. We are engaged in a war that we did not choose to begin, and we will not choose to end. Our war in the Middle East will not end if we leave, it will only follow our troops home. If we do not fight this war in the terrorists’ lands, they will fight it in ours. So instead of “no blood for oil,” I prefer Edmund Burke’s famous words: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
ERIC LARSON
Lake Stevens
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