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6 I OPINION I September 22, 2021 MID RIVERS NEWSMAGAZINE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Taliban and Blackhawks To the Editor: Because of Joe Biden’s flippant incompetence and total failure as the President of the United States, the Taliban is now the proud owner of the second most Black Hawk helicopters in the world – America being the first. The Pentagon has had the nerve to comment that Taliban pilots wouldn’t be skilled enough to fly the dozens of helicopters and planes, including carriers, they left behind and that they wouldn’t be able to repair them. However, the Pentagon fails to realize that Iran does know how to fly the planes, so does Russia and China. So I think the Taliban could fairly easily be trained. Eric Hinrichs Regarding ‘ Follow the science’ To the Editor: “Follow, but always at a distance” would have been a better title for your post. How much better would we all be if we just waited for all of the facts, tests and experiments to play out rather than rush in with the data we know today. It is so much easier to make evaluations on what we should have done the day prior. I would challenge your position as the firefighters have to make split decisions on how to get the fire out in a building with people in it. Our police first responders need to make split decisions on the best way to stop an active shooter. I am sure in both examples, teams would rather delay to gather more facts about what they need to do, but none of the victims would appreciate the extended responses. I think believing in the science generated from the majority of scientists is as good as it is ever going to get in an emergency or pandemic situation. Love to have more time to evaluate all of our decisions, but when our hospitals are taking beds for people who believe their rights to decide on getting a vaccine do not impact others, I think you need to refine your message. Your statement, “To be clear, this newspaper is neither anti-mask nor anti-vaccine …” is clearly rebutted by your previous statement “We are trying to sell scientific opinion as scientific fact ….” You are encouraging people to keep gathering information while the building is burning. How assuring for the people in the building to know the firefighters are trying to learn more about the effects of heat before they come to their rescue. Mike Prather Vietnam and Afghanistan To the Editor: Some of us remember the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of the girl who had been burned by U.S. napalm in Vietnam. It was a striking image of naked 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phùc, and many from that era have that vision burned into their memory. We now have a photo to remind us of the visions of war associated to the disorganized evacuation of Afghanistan. This can be summed up by the photograph of a U.S. Marine officer taking an infant from a mother who is handing her child over a wall, hopefully to safety, in the arms of a complete stranger. Other photos during the Vietnam War era, show the evacuation of Saigon as the North Vietnam Army and the Viet Cong press toward the United States embassy in Saigon. Some of the photos and news feed video from Vietnam can be placed along side the same images of Afghanistan and you might have a challenging time telling one from the other. Citizens trying to escape a wartorn region by doing whatever necessary to escape; hanging from aircraft, bunching up at throughput points, fighting off the enemy, but mostly trying to not be recognized by those who are looking for citizens who helped the United States military. If you surmise that these events run parallel, then you are correct. This is now Biden’s Saigon. No matter how much we get conflicting news stories, President Joe Biden is the Commander-In-Chief and he was the final decision maker on this and has put lives in jeopardy. Biden owns this debacle ... this is his Saigon. Michael Sargent Learn all you can To the Editor: Thank you for including Star Parker’s “Cancel Culture and wokeness will destroy our country” and the editorial, “Critical Thinking Needed” by Jackie Gingrich Cushman in the same issue. Our country is losing faith in our ability to think on our own. Somehow intelligent people are being led to believe we may not know a thing. I would love it if people would start to read again many sources and not just let one media source be their source of information. I want the best and the brightest. I want to take each person I meet for their value as a human being not a box checked on some form. I consider a friend, a friend. I don’t need to know how they identify to know they are a good person on the inside or rotten to the core. Somewhere along our lost way we have forgotten to be good to our neighbors who may become friends. We let our government tell us we aren’t being good to one another. That we cannot think through scientific information. We can fix this! Quit looking for the government to decide how to be good to one another or how to discern factual information. History has lots of bad behavior but we can do better without canceling or just trusting the facts we are fed. Learn all you can. Let history stay history by not repeating. Inger Clark Wynken, Blynken, and Nod To the Editor: For a generation we have been subject to quote Mark Twain, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The saying is particularly true in regard to the U.S. government and the Afghanistan war. The exit “strategy” was more of the same! The title to a children’s bedtime story comes to mind: • Wynken: During the George Stephanopoulos Aug. 18 interview President Joe Biden stated of the Aug. 31 date: “If you’re American force ... if there’s American citizens left, we’re gonna stay to get them all out.” Did the producers edit a wink or did the president have his fingers crossed? • Blynken: Secretary of State Antony Blinken in dealing with the Taliban … administration has “significant leverage” to ensure that the safety of Americans. Umm, does this mean quid pro quo? In other words, payment to release hostages! • Nod: This is a military acronym, Notice of Deficiency. This began with the commander in chief, further enhanced by the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. No wonder the anti-vax crowd has a distrust of the government. They must feel lies beget lies! Jay Braden Regarding Jackie Gingrich Cushman To the Editor: Jackie Gingrich Cushman (Sept. 8) sounded so much like her father. Having nothing but negative comments is not constructive and offering ideas that could have been positive would be much better. When Trump was in office and anything went wrong he was sure to pass the blame on to someone else. People who tried positive interjection were ignored or fired or quit and then Trump said he fired them. Getting out of Afghanistan was the thing to do and I wish it had gone smoother. The world looks to the U.S. to solve all of the problems or at least pay for them. Much larger participation by other nations is a question I asked and did not find an answer to. The Taliban have no assets and need the world to help them which hopefully means they will become tolerable. If the European Union and neighboring middle eastern countries would do most of it the onus should not be on the U.S. again. Gregory B. 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