To the editor:
Sitting alone at a small table at early breakfast on a trip to Spain, I welcomed a gentleman from the tour group who asked if he could share my table. As we talked, I learned he was an arms merchant. With great glee he recounted how, during the Iraq war, the word from the Bush/Cheney White House to Gen. Petreus was, “Keep the war going.”
(It’s good for business, you see. So says presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Prepare for war. It’s good business. One more reason I support Barack Obama. He stopped one war and is working toward ending another.)
In Spain I challenged my breakfast companion.
“Does it bother you that innocent men, women and children are being killed and a country destroyed by your armaments?”
He jumped up so fast he knocked his chair over; then stomped out of the room, breakfast unfinished.
Yes, President Obama. Please continue to end wars, decrease so-called defense spending and put the money into America’s crying needs.
– Maryneal Jones,
Columbus