Common sense says don't feed Afghan enemies

To the editor:

I come from a time when common sense prevailed. This seems to be lacking today in our under-experienced and highly educated society.

My common sense tells me that American schoolchildren should not send dollars to President Bush to give to Afghanistan's children. They will never see those dollars. Schoolchildren should send their dollars to New York to help the thousands of children orphaned by Osama bin Laden. We should stop all supplies going to Afghanistan. Feeding the enemy is unbelievably foolish.

It has been reported that Iran is supplying the Taliban with American-made weapons, the same ones sold during the Reagan administration to get the American hostages released in violation of the law and the Constitution. Supplying the enemy with food and weapons will increase substantially the number of American troops killed and wounded.

You don't play games, politics or popularity contests with soldiers' lives. If you do, you are a traitor and should be hanged.

What they need in Washington is a buck private who has been on the front line. He knows exactly how to whip that little country quickly and on his terms. He would cut off all supplies and starve them.

W.T. WOODS

Bertrand, Mo.