Marking 8 Years of the Afghan War
Posted by middleeast on October 10th, 2009
To the Editor:
Re “Surgical Strikes Shape Afghanistan Debate” (news article, Oct. 6):
My family has not gone to bed feeling as safe as we now do in this country in the eight years since 9/11, and President Obama has already made the country a safer place than President George W. Bush did after fighting two bloody and costly wars.
Let these wars not become President Obama’s. Then this new presidency, with its promise of bold change, will have been all for nothing, and probably without a remotely similar potential for a safe America in a peaceable world for decades.
We won’t indefinitely continue to feel safer, and be seen even more and more as a friend of the world’s Islamic street, unless the president continues to stay the course and sound even more loud and clear rapprochement.
James Adler
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 2009