Editor,
New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid was sure to be a big hit with students when she said that the war defending our country is taking money away from colleges. Yes, the war does take government funding, but so do welfare, health care and interstate repairs. If you want the war to cost less, stop paying terror organizations to rebuild after they've been spanked - it doesn't count as humanitarian aid if they're just going to put more of their own children in danger, all so they can say we're the ones putting them in danger.
I think the thing we need to remember is this: If the U.S. does not stay the course, if we do not settle the score, then sooner than we know it, we will have lost a lot more than the freedom to carry water bottles through airports. We will have lost the very opportunity for a girl like me to get an education. That is ultimately what is at risk here, and I, for one, say give our soldiers what they need to finish the job.
You want to bring them home quickly? Let them do their work, and when they return, let them find that we have done our part to preserve the way of life they strive to protect.
Janelle Tortorelli
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