More Fighting

Are we trying to kill Moammar Gadhafi? Or are we trying to liberate the Libyan people? I don't know. I do know that I think it is completely senseless to be bombing Libya. We are already involved in two wars which are unwinnable; do we really need a third one?  We cannot fix our roads, we are short of police and firemen, our education system  is falling short, our healthcare costs are spiraling out of control; but we can spend billions, or trillions, on fighting wars that we have no chance of winning. How stupid is that?

We should, of course, help the people of other countries that are worse off than we are, but war is not the definition of help. We could teach them to farm or make things or use their natural resources. We could help set up schools, purify the water, and raise their standards of living. We should not think that bombing their buildings, or trying to oust their leaders by force will help the individual person in any one of these countries. There has to be a better way.