{"id":65315,"date":"2009-12-04T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010427653_weekinreview.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-04T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T21:54:34","slug":"week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/65315","title":{"rendered":"Week in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President announces plan for Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that President Obama has decided it is in our vital national interest to have 100,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan [\u201cObama war plan draws hard look,\u201d News, Dec. 3], chasing what the president\u2019s own national-security team has said is fewer than 100 al-Qaida members, it\u2019s time to come to grips with the cost of this war.<\/p>\n<p>To continue as we have done with the Iraq war, and leave to our children and grandchildren the hundreds of billions of dollars in expense for our continuing military operations, is simply immoral. So, too, is relying upon a volunteer military force consisting of 1 to 2 percent of our nation\u2019s people, and forcing them to redeploy over and over and over again to fight our country\u2019s battles.<\/p>\n<p>If this war is really vital to our collective security, then imposing a war tax and reinstituting the draft are the only equitable solutions to allocating its burden among our citizens.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the decision makers will see this war quite differently once they start sending their own children and those of their financial backers to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Terence Colyer, Shoreline<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>White House party crashers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The highly paid Secret Service people who allowed Michaele and Tareq Salahi into the White House should be fired and replaced with minimum-wage airport security people [\u201cCelebrity-seeking moron,\u201d Opinion, editorial, Dec. 3].<\/p>\n<p>The White House party crashers would not have able to get past airport security. They insist on ticket, picture identification, coat and shoes before you get in.<\/p>\n<p>Does President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not deserve same security?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Monica Anderson, Shoreline<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President announces plan for Afghanistan Now that President Obama has decided it is in our vital national interest to have 100,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan [\u201cObama war plan draws hard look,\u201d News, Dec. 3], chasing what the president\u2019s own national-security team has said is fewer than 100 al-Qaida members, it\u2019s time to come to grips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}