Letter to the editor

Speaking your mind can be a pretty risky business these days, especially if the subject is our involvement in other people's wars. No need to name names and places and it doesn't take much effort to separate the villains from the good guys.The good guys, of course, are always us and the villains wear a variety of hats and ethnic identities. The one constant in this scenario is our reason for being there. We are there to save those poor folks from themselves and to restore Democracy to their lands, whether it ever existed there or not. It's even better if it didn't, because our being the ones responsible for bringing it to them makes our involvement all that much more justifiable. As time goes by it becomes a little vague what prompted our rush to take on the task of bringing freedom and the American way of life to these folks in the first place, but give it time and all will be an open book. The politicians can be relied upon to keep us riveted to our tv sets day after day ad nauseum until we begin to believe the world has never been any thing other than an arena in which to vent our God given blood lust and make us feel warm all over in the process, knowing that whatever the conflict and wherever it may occur, we are the harbingers of 'life, liberty and justice for all'. Even so, there's a new day dawning and folks are starting to lose that warm and fuzzy feeling and like I said, "speaking your mind can be a pretty risky business these days."

George Morin
Auburn, Ga.