Editor:
The phrase ”(It is) not worth the blood of one American life” has become
the yardstick used today to judge our foreign policy — by the general public,
a former president and a former general.
Consider: a few months ago the battle of D-Day was commemorated. We were
reminded that Omaha Beach literally ran red with the blood of soldiers whose
feet never even touched the shore.
That effort cost not one drop of blood but every drop of the blood of
thousands upon thousands of Americans. Should that effort now be vilified
because that liberation did not lead to a perfect world? And would that effort
have survived CNN showing ”live” that blood-red sea? Consider: there are
many today who would vehemently protest the risk of ”one American life” to
free the survivors of Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald. What business was it ours
what a sovereign nation, Germany, did within its borders? Should we not have
”interfered”?
Perhaps adherence to principle is outdated. Perhaps it died 50 years ago.
R. L. TARABINI
Fort Bragg
