Editor, Times-Union: I have been studying the new production weapons being introduced by the Russians to Syria. Several new war planes are now operational over Syria. At first I was happy to see the Russians doing some work that it seemed the U.S. was failing to do. Unfortunately, after analyzing the situation, I believe that both Russia and the U.S. simply use these terrible situations as a proving ground for new weapons. Even a new computerized land mine is being introduced. I say the logic is screwed. You don’t need heavy bombers and state-of-the-art fighter planes to eliminate ground forces. It didn’t work in Korea, it didn’t work in Vietnam, and it’s not working in Syria unless you consider destroying the entire country and crashing every building and home to the ground leaving one big chared hole. Answer me this: How can you eliminate ISIS unconventional soldiers when they are living in the homes and the buildings that belong to the Assyrian people without killing them through collateral damage? It’s impossible. My estimates are for every combatant that dies, at least 10 noncombatants are dying or fleeing for Europe. The faulty logic to the present hostilities will simply spread the extermination farther and farther, which makes the military industrial complexes of the world extremely rich, but they’re playing with a possible World War III scenario. The American people don’t seem up to being antiwar. But if they don’t listen, they will have to feel. Tom Metzger Warsaw
