Dear Editor,
In your Voices Around Campus portion of the Tejano Tribune, I saw no real clear voices that spoke the anger that most Americans carry for the president and his decisions. To say that “I agree with the withdrawal and we shouldn’t just retract all troops” is to state that you indeed agree with the war being carried out.
The war on Iraq was unjustified and carelessly planned. We’re spending billions per month on the formation of government in Iraq and its “assimilation” into the ideal vision Americans have created for a non westernized society. To say that the war is just and to continue being there is justified by the damage we have done is to say that, “Yes, the basis of the war was faulty, but, hey let’s just stay here anyway since we’re already here.”
If we were to wage war on every nation that carried no weapons of mass destruction but indeed had terrorists and activist groups against Americans and their western civilization, we would be at war with just about every nation. The idea is absurd, and it angers me that all of these youth were asked a question about the war and the withdrawal of troops, and none of them questioned the very idea that maybe we shouldn’t be there in the first place and that perhaps continuing to be there is an intrusion on Iraqi rights as a culture and society.
Let’s not forget the tragedy that happened to Native Americans when people thought that they needed civilization and order because they were “savages.”
Terese Mailhot
Student
