U.S. tax dollars going to countries’ insurgents

Many Americans would be surprised to learn their tax dollars fund the insurgents fighting against U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are flowing into Taliban coffers as bribes offered to stop insurgents from attacking convoys, etc.

In Iraq, the war was an embarrassing failure, so plans were made to end the war by airlifting billions of U.S. dollars to pay Iraqi insurgents not to fight. American citizens were misled into thinking a “surge” had “won” the war.

Multinational oil companies got Iraqi oil and are planning a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan. Profits for weapons- making corporations are booming. Congressional campaigns are flush with huge contributions from the weapons and oil industry.

So everyone's happy, right? Except the families of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians killed and wounded, millions of refugees who have lost their homes and businesses in the bombings, Iraqi citizens who no longer have electricity, phone, sewer or water because their infrastructure was bombed and all the Americans who are out of work, can't afford health care, college, home mortgages or basic living expenses because you can't maintain a healthy economy based on unending wars where you pay the enemy billions not to fight you.

Bert “Jay” Miller

Hills