Waging war’s no joke

I was watching a recording of Donald Trump speaking at the Al Smith Dinner in New York when Trump made a joke about Hillary Clinton appointing him ambassador to Iraq or Afghanistan if she is elected president. All those wealthy folks attending the dinner, the 1 percent Bernie Sanders warned us about, had a good laugh over that one. Never mind the fact that thousands of U.S. troops have died in those countries in the last decade or so, and not to mention the countless innocent civilian casualties resulting from the longest war in our nation’s history.

I realize it’s an event where the upper crust of society are supposed to poke fun at themselves and each other. But it just goes to show what the elites of this country think of us unwashed masses. While the general population is ready to literally go to war with each other over this presidential election, the two candidates, along with their elitist ilk, sit back and sip high-dollar drinks while swapping jokes about a war they caused and sent us to fight.

RL HUTSON

Cabot