To the editor:
Here we are, a nation nearly exhausted from the grinds of war — World War I, WWI, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. — on the verge of WW3 with a national debt of some $33 trillion dollars, and what do we do? We send $480 million more to Ukraine.
We only need be asked, and it seems, any requisitioner gets $500 million. Advocates of this ludicrous giveaway will argue, “If we don’t do it, the Chinese or the Russians will do so to get these folks on their side.”
May I ask? In lieu of the billions upon billions of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars we have spent on essentially buying off these nations, would we not be better off in having spent those billions and billions, even trillion, in developing a military force so lethal, so powerful and awesomely prepared, so feared by the world that any foreign nation’s intrusion into the lands, politics, laws, freedoms and well-being of the American people would guarantee immediate total annihilation of that intrusive nation?
Sound like an isolationist? Guess I am. But I guarantee you, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc., would back off and walk backwards as they do so.
All of us who are over childhood owe a great apology to our children and grandchildren, for we have created an out-of-control debt monster which they now inherit. How terribly sad.
Lou Ouellette
Madawaska
