In Tuesday’s Tribune, there was an op-ed by Richard C. Longworth titled “How cuts to the State Department weaken America.” In that article he states: “After all, it’s been 70 years since the U.S. won a shooting war. In that time, it won the Cold War with barely a shot fired, and, since World War II, has overseen seven decades of the longest era of peace and prosperity in world history.”
What hogwash! The U.S. has been constantly at war for the majority of the past 70 years. While I support the soft power of the State Department in attempting to avoid war, as a Vietnam combat veteran, I feel I must take offense to someone who chooses to ignore the deaths of more than 100,000 U.S. soldiers and the wounding of close to a half of a million U.S. soldiers during Longworth’s alleged “seven decades of the longest era of peace.”
Show some respect.
— Alan E. Krause, Oak Park
