Wednesday letters: Graham’s approach to world is killing Americans

South Carolina’s senior Sen. Lindsay Graham has interpreted 56 percent of his party’s vote in last year’s primary as a mandate to run for president. Graham zealously advocates a foreign policy that imposes American-style “democracy” on countries that care little for American interventionism or the death of American boys for “democracy.” Sen. Graham has learned nothing from our failed “nation building” in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Egypt.

Certainly, this wrongheaded policy is bipartisan, embodied by the U.S. government’s support of the Free Syrian Army, the “champions of democracy” enthusiastically embraced by Hillary Clinton, Graham and the Republican presidential candidates excepting Rand Paul.

In Lebanon this year, I picked up a newspaper whose front-page showed “Rebel Jihadists,” U.S.-backed “Free Syrian Army” members and Al-Nusra, the notoriously brutal Al-Qaeda affiliate, embracing each other following their capture of a town in Northern Syria, supported by U.S. training and weapons.

Al-Qaeda, not the Syrian government, destroyed the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11. Assad kills more jihadists in a month than U.S. air strikes do in a year.

Through American interventionism, war in Syria will only worsen; thousands of Christians will die at the hands of U.S.-backed terrorists under the Bush-Clinton-Graham-Rubio “nation building.”

Mayesville

This story was originally published June 30, 2015 at 7:09 PM.