Time to maintain peace with foreign countries: Letters

We are friends with Vietnam now. It’s a tourist destination. What did those 58,000 boys die for? What did our aggression in Iraq prove? When will this conflict in Afghanistan end? Why are we always at war? These are my Questions Of The Week.
This posturing and saber rattling is stupid. It is 1984-esque in its distraction from the things we should be addressing. It’s a blanket thrown over the country, a soporific: “What’s the latest from the wars? How are the wars going?&r