Just don’t understand

I am a 75-year-old African American male veteran of the greatest military ever assembled, and I don’t understand how we can be billed as the “greatest military” when we can’t win nor finish a war. We didn’t win the Korean conflict. We pulled out of Vietnam, and now we quit in Afghanistan. We say that the Afghanistan army quit and refused to fight; fact is they didn’t sign up to fight, they signed up to train and get paid and the word is that they were not getting paid. If there was to be any fighting, America would do it and did.

I found it very difficult to watch the news account on TV of the Afghan people bombarding the airport runways, cramming into full planes, hanging onto airplane wings trying to escape the atrocity of the fall of Kabul, yes, very much reminiscent of the fall of Saigon.

I don’t understand who is responsible for this. Is it or was it President George W. Bush, President William J. “Bill” Clinton, President Barack Obama, impeached President Donald J. Trump or current President Joseph “Uncle Joe” Biden? I don’t think that ol’ Uncle Joe is getting the job done. His approval rating may be and is high, but what has he achieved? You say, well, he has Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and his cronies to work with, and I say he knew that.

What troubles me is not the state of the Afghan government or its people or the money spent, but the American men and women who lost their lives or were crippled or mentally affected. I simply don’t understand. FRANKLIN FURLOUGH

Little Rock